Whisky and Scotland
First Edition:
WHISKY AND SCOTLAND | [ital] A Practical and Spiritual Survey | by | NEIL M. GUNN | [ornament] | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE | AND SONS, LTD. Broadway | House, Carter Lane, London, E.C. | 1935
Collation:
[ ] (4), A - I (8), No J, K - M (8), N (4), 104 leaves.
p. [i] WHISKY AND SCOTLAND; p. [ii] THE VOICE OF | SCOTLAND | LIST OF TITLES; p. [iii] Title page; p. [iv] Publisher's and Printer's notices: [ital] First published 1935; p. v TO THOSE | OUTSIDE THE PALE; p. [vi] blank; p. [vii] Contents; p. [viii] blank; p. [1] PART ONE | IN THE BEGINNING; p. [2] blank; pp. 3 - [198] Text; p. [199] Printer's notice; p. [200] blank.
4 7/8" x 7 1/2". Bound in green cloth, spine stamped in gold:
[line] | WHISKY | AND | SCOTLAND | NEIL M. | GUNN | [space] | ROUTLEDGE | [line] Ornament impressed blind on bottom right hand corner of the front board.
Other Editions:
Souvenir Press | London | 1977 (With a foreword by Michael Grieve - the son of Hugh MacDiarmid)
An extract entitled "Uisgebeatha", comprising the first chapter of the book appeared in: The Scots Magazine | Dundee | August 1935 | pp. 327 - 333.
An extract comprising pp. 3 - 12 and part of p. 13, being part of the first chapter "Uisgebeatha", appeared as "The First Dram" in: A Wee Dram | D. Daiches, ed. | Andre Deutsch | London | 1990 | pp. 13 - 18.
Notes:
Gunn's classic treatise on Scotch Whisky.