A little while ago, one of my customers brought in a couple of boxes of books they wanted to give us. In the boxes was a small volume entitled "The Clans and Tartans of Scotland", by Robert Bain, (with a foreword with his grace, the Duke of Montrose). It's bound in tartan fabric (I don't recognize the sett). It appears that it was first published in 1938, and this is a 1948 printing.

After the foreword it has a list of septs and dependents. This is followed by pages of translations into Gaelic of English names, male and female. After this are chapters on Scottish dress, dates, and a clan map of Scotland. After all of this (70 pages into the book) come pages of clans, each with a short description of the clan, and a full page color reproduction of the clan tartan.

It's not the sort of thing I would put on the shelf at the library, so it has found a place in my own collection of books.