Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, [1840-1850]. “Care to our coffin adds a nail no doubt, while every laugh so merry draws one out.” A pleasant chapbook with a number of humorous, and somewhat crude, repartees, each taking up about half a page each. 16mo. [2], [3]-24pp. Dated per NLS.....

London: John Murray, 1841. Second edition, enlarged with the addition of a chapter on deer-stalking, and burn and river fishing, almost doubling the length of the book. Considered one of the best mid-19th century books on fishing and shooting in Scotland. In publisher's brown gilt-stamped cloth, bound by.....

Edinburgh: Practical Training School of Cookery and Housekeeping, [n.d. circa 1903-04]. A delightful turn-of-the-twentieth-century volume, which in addition to dozens of recipes, provides a price list of lessons Griggs taught, including cookery, dressmaking, and laundry work, along with several pages of ads including for a typewriter and Cadbury. The recipes.....

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees . . . 1815. Quadruple decker second edition of the anonymously published polemical novel. Affectionally referred to as the “brave-hearted lady” by Carlyle, the republication of this work in 2003 brought renewed, and deserved, attention to the long-neglected proto-feminist author. In his introduction to.....

Stirling: W. Macnie, Bookseller, [n.d. 1820-1831]. A charming provincial chapbook from local Stirling chapbook printer William Macnie. A short collection of ballads. With a vignette on the title page of a gentleman cutting down a tree with a very large axe. Macnie apparently produced around 110 chapbooks under his.....