1824 novel: "The Highlanders"

[Woodsheal]

Are you into antique or rare, out-of-print books? This one looks quite interesting. (If I had the spare bucks right now, I'd grab it myself!)

http://www.catscradlebks.net/?page=s...628481a4c59a91

I've bought from these folks before, and they're a pleasure to deal with....

[NewGuise]

It appears to be just the first volume of a two volume set - the original English edition (also 1824) was published in three volumes - so I wouldn't go there unless I really wanted that particular book and figured I would eventually track down volume 2. But the novel is by Felix MacDonogh, if you want to do some further searching....

[Woodsheal]

Oh, I hadn't noticed the "Vol. 1." Tracking down the other volumes from the same edition might be a very tough hunt....

[Pleater]

When at my mother's mother's house I spent many happy hours reading the old books she had, there were book cases in every nook of the place - she used to go to auctions and buy boxes of old books for pennies - when she moved to a small flat the books and bookcases were burnt along with the big old furniture.

I do have just one book from the house - stories of Waterloo - which I 'borrowed' to finish reading. Many of the novels were trashy Victorian things with good little girls being mother to their siblings and the like, but there were a few really good books.

They might have been worth quite a bit now a days.

I'd have cheerfully burnt up tales of little Rosebud or Pearl, but there were quite a few military campaigns and visits to Egypt, Africa and places I had never heard of which would have looked well on my shelves. The slave taking/owning ones would not be at all pc now though.

I can almost smell them - ancient leather bindings, silk ribbon bookmarks, and edges and inner bindings with that multicolour oil on water effect.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: