First edition. Folio. Publisher’s original binding of chromolithographed boards, showing St Columba to the covers, with a cloth spine. A very good copy, a little rubbed.
PROVENANCE: Rev. George Williams (1814-1878), noted English cleric, scholar and antiquary, his bookplate to front pastedown. Sold at his his sale ('Catalogue of the Library of the Late Rev. Canon Williams'), at Sotheby, July 1878, to; Charles Francis Wyatt (1820-1906), antiquary and rector of Broughton, Oxfordshire, his bookplate to front pastedown.
An attractive study of Iona, with impressive antiquarian provenance.
The Cathedral, Or Abbey Church Of Iona
Author
Messrs Bucklers; The Bishop Of Argyll
Publisher
London: Day And Son
Date
1866
