8vo. [4], 192pp, [4]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Partially unopened in modern red half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, T.E.G. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting.

The sole edition of a collection of notices on the history of Glasgow, many initially printed at intervals in the Glasgow Herald, by Glaswegian judge and sometime sheriff-substitute of Perthshire Hugh Barclay (1779-1884).

The author's recollections include memories of his university days, Glasgow prison, the Andersonian and Mechanics' Institutions, and, more morbidly, 'The Resurrectionists, of Body Snatchers'.