stirling house (4 resultados)

HARDCOVER. 2004. Second edition, second impression. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine d/w. This copy presents as brand new. Scans available if required.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 2nd Edition. 275 pages (complete). Second edition, second impression. A very smart copy of this gloriously nostalgic and elegant book of the hey-days of air-travel in Africa. The dustjacket is tidy. It has light wear about the edges, some scuffing, some light marking. It is comfortable and sure. The boards are neat, healthy, steady. The contents are most gratifying and serene. They are very clean, clear, most generous and well-ordered, pleasurable and welcoming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

4to, 2 pp. On first leaf of a bifolium. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged laid paper with watermark of 'A ANNANDALE & SONS'. Stuck down on the reverse of the blank second leaf of the bifolium is a square of paper from the leaf to which it was attached in an album, and beneath this square, visible when held up to the light, is the inscription: 'Imperfectly printed | Annie Stirling Stuart | Castlemilk | 1871'. The poem is 48 lines long, arranged in twelve stanzas. Signed 'H. M. E.' in type at end (perhaps one of the Erskines, relations by marriage of the Stirling-Stuart family). A lament for 'happy youth! too quickly sped | Within these old grey towers'. First stanza reads: 'THE autumn winds are moaning | Around the old square tower, | Where once, three hundred years ago, | Was Scottish Mary's Bower.' (The reference is to Cassilton Tower, around which Castlemilk House was built, where Mary Queen of Scots stayed on the eve of the Battle of Langside, 1568.) References to the 'Tay bridge' and 'great city' (i.e. Glasgow). Last stanza: 'The memory of our early home | Its fairest lustre shed | O'er lives that blossom in good deeds | That live, when we are dead!' Excessively scarce: no copy in the National Library of Scotland, on COPAC or WorldCat. Castlemilk House was built around Cassilton Tower, which was started in 1460 on the site of a 13th-century castle. The five-hundred-year-old Castlemilk House was demolished by Glasgow Corporation in 1969 to make way for an ill-advised housing project. Castlemilk is now a district of Glasgow.

7pp, 32mo. On two bifoliums, stitched together. In good condition, lightly aged. Signed 'Agnes Strickland'. A nice letter with interesting content. Begins: 'Feeling all the kindness of most friendly invitation so sensibly as I do, it gives me the greater regret to be compelled to forgo the pleasure you offer me, of joining my friends Mr. & Miss Mackinnon in your charming home on the 8th of Octr. I have been tempted to linger on, in this delightful and hospitable land from day to day and week after week till the very day you have named is, by some strange fatality, that appointed for my imbarkation at Ardrossan with my young friend Lady Augusta Bruce, [(1822-1876), daughter of the Earl of Elgin, later Lady Augusta Elizabeth Frederica Stanley] the sister of Lady Matilda Maxwell, with whom I am at present staying.' She reports that she is going to spend a few days with her sister Mrs Gwillym at Ulverstone, and then I proceed home as quickly as I can via Lincolnshire and Norfolk, to my own home, where I shall have to write at the rate of ten hours a day to make up for all the time I have spent, in endeavouring to gather more information illustrative of the personal history of the Queen of James 2nd Mary D Esté. | The vol in which she makes her appearance must be out early in the new year. This ties me imperatively to time, and compels me to do violence to my own inclinations, when I give up, or rather, I hope I may be permitted to say postpone a visit to Hardwicke Hall in consequence'. She ends with compliments to Sir Thomas Cullum, and 'hoping one day to renew and improve our acquaintance so agreeably commenced'.