First edition.

8vo., two volumes, handsomely bound in half red polished calf over marbled paper boards, ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt with contrasting leather labels. Spines a little sunned, neat ink name, but still an attractive set.

Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet, Bt, KT, PC, JP, DL, FRS, FRGS was a Scottish novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1906.