Author: Ian B. Stoughton Holbourn
Title: The Isle of Foula
Description: Lerwick , Johnson & Greig, 1938. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated work on the Isle of Foula written by the Laird of the island and edited by his wife. The first edition. In the original publisher's blue cloth. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and thirteen plates, including a full colour map. Collated complete. This work consists of a collection of essays on Foula by the Laird, Ian B. Stoughton Holbourn, and was edited, with an additional memoir of the Laird, by his wife M. C. Stoughton Holbourn. Foula is one of the UK's most remote permanently inhabited islands, situated in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland. It has been owned and inhabited by the Holbourn family since the early twentieth century. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally excellent with slight bumping and very minimal rubbing to the extremities. The odd spot to the endpapers with a past owner's blind stamp to the free endpapers. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd spot only. Near Fine . Ill.: None stated. Near Fine .

Keywords: Illustrated Scotland Isle of Foula Ian B. Stoughton Holbourn Scotland Britain None stated


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