8vo. 55pp, [1]. With a half-title and two engraved plates. Handsomely bound by J. Carss & Co. of Glasgow in contemporary richly gilt-tooled burgundy straight-grain morocco, A.E.G., gilt dentelles, green moire silk doublures and free-endpapers. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Binder's ticket to verso of FFEP, scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'To / James A. Anderson Esquire / from the Compiler / 15 Upper Nile Street / 11th Janry 1826'.

The first edition of a succinct historical survey of the Glasgow Grammar School compiled by Glaswegian statistician and civic administrator James Cleland (1770-1840).

This elaborately bound copy is inscribed to the dedicatee James A. Anderson, convener of the committee on the grammar school and President of the Andersonian Institution (later Strathclyde University). A second edition, with the addition of a memoir on Cleland appeared posthumously in 1878.

OCLC records copies at just eight locations (BL, Edinburgh, Glasgow, NLS, Oxford, Pennsylvania, Strathclyde, and Yale); COPAC adds no further.