Leyden, John; Sinton, James (editor) Journal of a Tour in the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland in 1800. SIGNED BY SINTON. Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1903. Signed by editor First Edition
317pp. Journal and letters on a tour of Scotland's Highlands and Western Isles undertaken in 1800 by John Leyden, a Scottish orientalist who worked with Sir Walter Scott in the documentation of folk songs and ballads for Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802). The editor, James Sinton, also provided a comprehensive bibliography of the works of John Leyden at the back of this book, which was published after the author's death. Sinton inscribed and signed the book of the front free endpaper. Condition: In remarkably fresh condition, with some browning to the endpapers.

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