A Contribution To The Bibliography Of Scottish Topography Volume 2 PDF Download

Excerpt from A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography, Vol. 1 of 2 Sir Arthur Mitchell had at one time the intention of preparing a topographical bibliography of his native province of Moray, and to that end collected a considerable amount of material. This was not published, owing, as I understood from him, to the death of the editor or proprietor of the local newspaper in which it was to have been printed. But Sir Arthur preserved all his jottings, and continued and extended the habit he had formed of making a note of books of a topographical character. He did not limit his jottings to Moray, but noted books dealing with Scotland in general or any part of it. His notes were made largely on the unused portions of notepaper tom off letters; these were dropped as written into a succession of eardboard boxes, and they gradually accumulated into a quite serious quantity of 'scraps of paper' - as we in those peaceful pre-war days were in the habit half-humorously of calling them. The Moray slips were, of course, more or less together, but the others were in no order at all, nor had they any semblance of uniformity of arrangement. It became evident to Sir Arthur after some years that such a mass of jottings bade fair to be unmanageable. My personal acquaintance with Sir Arthur began when he was at work on his List of Tours, published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1901. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.