Glasgow and its clubs: or glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters, and Oddities of the city.
London and Glasgow.
Richard Griffin and Company, 1857.
Second edition, revised, corrected and enlarged.
8vo.
viii, 496pp. Twentieth century red half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. T.E.G., marbled endpapers. Rubbed, with light wear and tear to joints and corners, spine faded. Bookseller's ticket of Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow to FEP, spotting to edges, with additional very slight spotting throughout text.
A revised edition of a study of Glasgow's society and manners by Scottish writer John Strang (1795-1863), first published in 1855, and revised a third time in 1864. Strang, City Chamberlain of Glasgow for thirty years from 1834, also contributed the article on 'Glasgow' to the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 33406
