Title: The Ross-Shire Buffs

Author: James Grant

Publisher: George Routledge, London - Railway Library

Date Published: Not stated (1877)

Description: Scarce original pictorial yellowback hardback. Routledge Railway Library Edition.  315 pages. Adverts to endpapers.  Bumping, loss, and wear to the extremities, with bottom half of spine missing (see pictures).  Binding tender but holding sound and square. Signature to title page. Lightly pencilled notes to some leaves. 

Scarce Scottish novella and linked stories. 

James Grant (1882-1887) was a Scottish soldier and writer. His novels are primarily set in Scotland, and are very well-written and plotted, owing something to the style of his kinsman, Sir Walter Scott. Many of the novels display Scottish Jacobite sympathies - in the preface to The White Cockade, Grant is at pains to say that "a poet, or a reader, may be a Jacobite in literature, without being in the smallest degree a Jacobite in politics". His excellent work deserves to be more celebrated.

Provenance: We have recently acquired a large private collection of yellowback books. These books were published in the Victorian era and aimed to provide entertaining reading at a relatively cheap price. They have yellow boards and colourful chromolithographic illustrated covers. Although produced in large numbers, they were regarded as disposable at the time, and survivals can be relatively scarce.

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