8vo. 50 copies printed. 111pp, [1]. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Rubbed and marked. Hinges exposed, inked ownership inscription of E. McIver to head of title page, occasional manuscript annotations/corrections to text, several leaves protruding from text-block, scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'Evander McIver Esq. / Representative of the families of Ness & Tournack / with the Author's kind regards'.

The sole edition of a succinct monograph on the history of Clan McIver by Church of Scotland clergyman and first Principal of the University of Aberdeen Peter Colin Campbell (1810-1876).

The recipient of this copy, himself mentioned in the text, was Evander McIver (1811- 1903), Scottish factor for the Scourie estate of the Dukes of Sutherland for fifty years, prominent proponent of crofting following the Highland Clearance, and author of the posthumously published Memoirs of a Highland Gentleman (Edinburgh, 1905).