The Rise and Progress of the Company of the Merchants of the City of Edinburgh 1681-1902, Alexander Heron, 1903

The Company of Merchants was formed to protect and promote the rights of merchants of the burgh of Edinburgh. The company still exists today as a modern forum for business, and to manage their charitable and educational activities.

The Rise and Progress of the Company of the Merchants of the City of Edinburgh 1681-1902, Alexander Heron, Solicitor Supreme Courts, Clerk of the Company. 

Published by T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1903. First edition.

A good hardback with green linen over boards with gilt armorial and black leather spine with gilt titles. The cover cloth is stained and discolored along the fore-edges, and with some minor bumping and rubbing. Spine slightly faded. Soundly bound.

Some spotting to endpapers and light scattered spotting throughout, but text is overall bright and clean. Text with gilt top edge and rough cut edges. A few pages still unopened. A pencil presentation inscription to first free endpaper. A very readable example.

Text in English.

xv + 400pp

Dimensions:

Approximately 261mm high x 209mm wide x 55mm deep.

Weight approximately 1212g unpacked.