1856 Sketches And Tales Of The Shetland Islands : Edmondston : F J Grant's Copy

Sketches And Tales Of The Shetland Islands

By Eliza Edmondston 

Published by Sutherland and Knox, Edinburgh, 1856. First Edition. 8vo. Original blind-stamped cloth binding. 256 pages. With a colour map frontispiece.

PROVENANCE
Previously owned by Sir Francis James Grant with his bookplate to the inside front board and his signature to the front endpaper.
Sir Francis James Grant KCVO WS (1863–1953) was a Scottish officer of arms who eventually rose to the office of Lord Lyon King of Arms. Grant served in the Court of the Lord Lyon as Carrick Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary beginning on 17 May 1886. This appointment lasted until his promotion to the office of Rothesay Herald of Arms in Ordinary and Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records on 8 September 1898. [citation needed]

On 10 May 1929, he was appointed Lord Lyon King of Arms and Secretary of the Order of the Thistle.[1] He was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1935. Grant retired from the office on 30 June 1945. He was the representative of Grant of Corrimony, and was the son of John Grant, Marchmont Herald of Arms in Ordinary from 1884 to 1888. Grant was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists in 1944

Grant compiled and published The County Families of the Zetland (Shetland) Islands — originally published 1893 (often cited as "The County Families of the Zetland Islands" / "The County Families of the Shetland Islands").

CONTENTS 
General Sketch of Shetland
The Shetlanders
Topographical Sketch of the Islands
The Sillack
The Pony
The Ornithologist
Fallen Angels
An Excursion
Ole Olafson; A Shetland Tale of Other Times
The Smugglers; Another Story of Olden Time
The Fisherman
The Fowler
The Sailor
The Knitters
The Whale Hunt
The Early Parted
The Shipwreck
The Sunken Rock
Norna
A Shetland Lochinvar
Muness Castle

CONDITION
A very good copy. The cloth binding is in very good condition with no damage. Endpapers very good. Front inside board has F. J. Grant's bookplate and he has signed the front endpaper. All contents present and pages are very clean throughout. Frontis map very good. Overall a very good copy of this scarce Shetland title.

(Platform / Scotland)