H. Shields and J. Meikle | Famous Clyde Yachts, 1880-87, Glasgow, 1888, 2 copies, original cloth gilt

Henry Shields and James Meikle

Famous Clyde Yachts, 1880-87. Glasgow and London: Oatts and Runciman, 1888

2 copies, FIRST EDITIONS, folio (each 500 x 380mm.), each with mounted chromolithographed frontispiece and 31 further plates after watercolours by Henry Shields, contemporary ownership inscription to verso of title in one copy, original pictorial cloth gilt (one copy in maroon cloth, the other in dark blue cloth), some spotting, extremities rubbed (more extensively in copy bound in dark blue cloth)

Two first editions of this historically important series of views depicting famous nineteenth-century yachts on the Clyde River area of Scotland, the chromolithographs based of watercolours by Henry Shields, arranged and written by James Meikle

PROVENANCE

Copy bound in maroon cloth: S.C. Gordon Robinson, June 1888, ownership inscription to verso of title