A great edition of John Galt’s best-known works – Annals of the Parish and the Ayrshire Legatees in one volume, published by Mercat Classics (TheMercat Press) in 1994. According to the information on the inside page this is “a facsimile of the edition published by Macmillan & Co in 1895”. In the modern edition, there is a new introduction by Ian Campbell. This was a fortunate find in a charity shop recently at a cost of £3.49.
This edition, like that of 1895 contains wonderful illustrations by Charles E Brock. Both the Annals of the Parish and The Ayrshire Legatees were originally published separately in book form in 1821 after having been serialised in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine.
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| Illustration by C E Brock |
A very lucky find!
