A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in the northern counties of England and in Scotland

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Chapter I

Dumfries. — Gretna Green : Annan : Dumfries: Church of St. Michael : Bums: Mausoleum of Bums: Caerlaveroc Castle: Sweetheart Abbey : Lincluden Abbey : Road to Edinburgh. Plates. — 1. Anns of Scotland, before the Union : 2. Old Gretna Green House : 3. Lincluden Abbey : 4. Tomb of Lady Margaret.

CHAPTER IL

Edinburgh. — View of the City and Castle: Visit to the Castle: Moonlight Scene : Streets (a Highland Raid of the 1 7th century, note) : Advocate Crosbie, the Pleydell in'Guy Mannering' : Princes-street : General Register House: the Canongate: Residence of John Knox: of Earl Moray: Old Tolbooth : Holyrood House : St Giles's : Heriot's Hospital : the University, with its Library: Advocates' Library: Signet Library: Character of Sir Walter Scott's Writings: Museum of Painting and Sculpture: Banking Houses: Waterloo -place (Messrs. Chambers'): Repository of Mr. Lizars : Regent-terrace : Calton Hill : Bibliomaniacal Symposia : Private Libraries : the Fine Arts : Booksellers : Ane Interlude^ which hath to name Dalkeith House and Roslyn Castle and Chapel. Plates. — I. The old Tolbooth : 2. Facsimile of the first six Signatures to the Union with Scotland : 3. Ditto of Initial Letters, and of Illuminations in the Collection of A. Macdonald, Esq. : 4. Edinburgh Castle, with the Grassmarket: 5. Archway under Waterloo-place: 6. Portrait of Advocate Crosbie : 7. Residence of John ICnox, Canongate : 8. Earl Moray's House, Canongate ; each from Geikie : 9. North Entrance to Heriot's Hospital : 10. Carved Chimney-piece in the same : 1 1 . Stirrup Cup, by W. Allan, Esq. R.A. : 12. Man whistling to his bird, by Geikie : 13. Conversation, by the same : 14. Facsimile of an entire Letter by Mary Queen of Scots, to her aunt, when young: 15. Three Facsimiles from the Codex Justinianus in the Advocates' Library: 16. Facsimile of a Group of Females, from a MS. in the Catholic Library : 17. a Domestic Fool, from the Collection of Lord Cockbum : 18. Ancient Bagpiper: 19. The Maiden: 20. Ancient University Quadrangle: 21. Wood-cut Frontispiece from " Early Metrical Tales" : 22. Facsimile of a Wood-cut by Hans Holbein, in the collection of the Rev. Dr. Lee.

Chapter III

Glasgow. — Ancient Descriptions: Trade: Buildings: Civil History : Anecdotes of Cromwell : of the Pretender: John, Duke of Argyle : the Cochrane Correspondence : Executions : Chap Books of Scotland : the late Mr. Motherwell : Religious Persecutions : the Cathedral: the Cemetery: the University : Library : Zachary Boyd : the Hunterian Museum : Pictures: Coins: Books: Hutcheson's Hospital: Exhibition of Pictures : the Foulis Press : Maitland Club Symposium : Bibliomauiacal

Table Of Contents

Symposia. Vicinity of Glasgow. — Frisky Hall : Dumbarton : Hamilton Palace : Falls of the Clyde : Dalzel House : Bothwell Castle. Plates.— I, Seal of Bp. Wischard, laoO : 2. Vignette of the Cathedral : 3. Pillar to the Memoiy of Sir Walter Scott : 4. Entrance to the Cemetery : 5. Interior of the second Quadrangle of the College . 6. Exterior and Interior of the same : 7. Academic Examination Chair : 8. Facsimile of Charles the First's Writing : 9. Hunterian-Museuni Medal : 10. Portrait of Dr. William Hunter, from Sir J. Reynolds: 11. Head of St Peter, by Rubens : 12. Unique Coin of Alexander : 13. Illumination from a MS. of Boethius: 14. Illumination from a MS. of ^^ the Life of Christ: 15. Gold Crown-piece of James VI : 16. Statues of George and Thomas Hutcheson, foimders of the Hospital so called : 17. The Hutcheson Tower, Bridgegate: 18. The Triumph of Christianity, from Parmegiano, in the Collection of A. M*Lellan, Esq. : 19. Ancient Residence of the Montrose Family, and House inhabited by James II : 20. Highland Kitchen, attached to an old Castle.

Chapter IV

The Lakes. — Greenock : Lochs Goylc and Long : Inverarj- : I^och Fyne : Argyle Castle: Dundurraw Castle: Caimdow : Glen Croc: Tarbet: Ix)ch Lomond : Ben Lomond : Luss : I/)ch Catliariuc : The Trossachs. Plates. — 1. Dundurraw Castle, Loch F}Tie : 2. Fisliermen at Inverary.

Chapter V

St. Andrew's: Visit to Raith: Ruins of the Catliedral, Castle, and Black and Grey Friars' Monastery at St. Andrew's: Execution of Wishart, and Assassinations of Cardinal Beaton and Archbishop Sharj) : Destructive Doings of John Knox : A Golfing Festival : The University : Bibliomaniacal Symposia : the Farewell : the Church of Leuchars : Dundee : Visit to Kinfauns Castle, Lord Gmy : Perth : Scone. Plates. — 1. Medallion of Robert Ferguson, Esq. M.P. : 2. Portrait of Sir John Leslie, by Sir David Wilkie : 3. Entrance Gate to St Andrew's : 4. Head of an Ancient Silver Mace : 5. Ruins of the Eastern and Western Ends of the Cadiedral : 6. The old Tower, with St. Rule's Chapel : 7. Tomb of Bishop Kennedy : 8. Fragment of a Saxon Tomb-stone : 9. A Golfer : 10. Fair Time : 11. Portrait of an old Soldier in the Army of the Pretender — ^in the collection of Lord Gray (frontispiece to Volume II.)