Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art, & Industry, Glasgow (1911); Palace of History, Catalogue of Exhibits

An important two-volume illustrated catalogue from the Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art, and Industry held in Glasgow in 1911, documenting the contents of the Palace of History at one of the most ambitious cultural exhibitions staged in early twentieth-century Scotland. The work records a wide range of historical, artistic, and industrial exhibits, reflecting contemporary ideas of national identity, heritage, and progress on the eve of the First World War. Complete sets are uncommon and remain a valuable primary source for historians of Scottish history, exhibitions, and material culture.

Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art, & Industry, Glasgow (1911); Palace of History, Catalogue of Exhibits. In two volumes, complete. Illustrated.

Published by Dalross Limited, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London. Printed at the University Press by Robert Maclehose and Co. Ltd. Presumed first edition, 1911. An uncommon set.

A good set of blue cloth hardbacks with gilt Lion Rampant armorial to front covers and gilt titles to spine. Small reference labels to spine. Cloth with wear to extremities and joints. Endpapers intact at inner hinges and with some offsetting. Front endpapers with discrete 'Henshaw Edinburgh' blind embossed stamp (an Edinburgh bookseller from the time of publication).

Text is generally bright and clear with toning and light spotting to rough-cut vertical edges.