viii 201 pages, illustrated with black and white plates, bibliography, index. The price clipped jacket is chipped at the edges, with minor loss; there is a gift inscription on the front end paper and the preliminaries, the index, bibliography and fore-edge are foxed. Overall an attractive copy. "Fify great houses in the (Scottish) Lowlands are described, and each is illustrated with two photographs taken by the author" (front flap)