Old Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Containing the Trial of Thomas Muir ; The Bute Election ; The Trial of Wilson, Hardie and Baird ; The Old Guards of Glasgow ; Robert Carrick and the Old Ship Bank of Glasgow ; The last execution for forgery ; extraordinary bank robbery in Glasgow ; trial of the Rev. Neil Douglas, of Glasgow, for Sedition ; the Twa Fuddled Precentors ; Fraud on the Glasgow Underwriters ; Story of Col. Hamilton of the Scots Greys, killed at Waterloo ; the Calder Farmer and his Heckling Wife ; Robbery of the Edinburgh Excise Office ; first gas illumination in Glasgow ; a Strange Election on the top of Ben Lomond ; the Reform Bill of 1830 ; Henry Bell and first steamer ; bloody riot in Glasgow ; the hangman's whip ; the Spy System ; Glasgow sending its first two members to Parliament ; Burke and Hare ; the fatal doom of the Glasgow butcher.
Glasgow: James P. Forrester, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Portrait frontis, 644 pages ; Portrait frontis, 638 pages. 2 volumes, in original brown cloth, gilt lettered with gilt crest to the upper board of each volume, bevelled boards, with blind rules. Very clean and sound throughout. Top edges of each volume..... More