x, 372 printed pages. Line illustrations. Rounded corners. Original marbled endpapers. Inner hinge cracked but holding firmly. 35 x 52 mm. Original silk tartan binding from the Hunting Stewart clan, and with black leather label on spine. What is intersting about this example is that it has been block stamped on the upper cover 'From the Old Blacksmith Shop, Gretna Green'. Silk covers and label slightly dulled. Bondy, 116. Garbett, 39. Welsh, 1533. OCLC, 20137731. WorldCat locates 6 copies worldwide. By the 1920s, the "Old Blacksmith Shop" in Gretna Green had become an iconic, albeit romanticized, tourist spot for runaway marriages. Including this advertising in a Robert Burns collection demonstrates an early 20th-century effort to market national heritage—literature and romantic history—together to visitors. More frequently found than with David Bryce imprint. One of the titles in Queen Mary's Doll's House.










