SALMOND

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[The first ten issues of periodical.] The Irish Book Lover. No. I [No. X]. [With Autograph Note by the editor, E. R. McC. Dix.]

Author: 
E. R. Mc C. Dix [Ernest Reginald McClintock Dix (1857-1936)], editor, The Irish Book Lover
Publication details: 
London: 1909-1910. [All ten issues 'Printed and Published by Whyte & Salmond, at the Manor House, Kensal Green, London.]
£100.00

8vo. The ten issues are consecutively paginated from 1-140, not including the printed wraps, which carry advertisements including individual wants of parties ranging from the Irish scholar F. J. Biggar to the London booksellers Maggs Bros. The ten items are all complete and unbound. The first six issues are printed on high-acidity paper, and are in frail condition, with loose leaves and chipping; the last four are in better condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper.

['Forgery of the Commercial Bank of Scotlands Guinea Note.'] Lithographic notice in copperplate handwriting, 'given to enable the public to distinguish the forged from the genuine Notes', with illustrations.

Author: 
[Commercial Bank of Scotland; George Salmond, Writer [solicitor], Glasgow [Procurator-Fiscal of Lanarkshire]; forgery]
Publication details: 
Without place or date, but with reference to 'George Salmond, Writer, Glasgow'. Early nineteenth-century.
£650.00

2pp., 4to. On leaf untidily torn from an album, resulting in a ragged edge with minor loss of text (a few parts of words). On aged and chipped paper.

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