MACLAREN, Ian (author). Frederick C. GORDON (illustrator). A Doctor of the Old School. London Hodder & Stoughton. 1894

8vo.; publisher’s teal blue pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, decoratively blocked and lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, all edges gilt, cream endpapers; pp. [vi], [3]-208 + [i], on fine coated stock; with pretty title-page in Art Nouveau style in sage green and blue, with decorative thistle border, engraved frontispiece and fine engraved illustrations throughout in profusion, largely presented as full-page plates; a fine and exceptional copy, both externally and internally almost immaculate, without ownership marks, and with just the faintest suggestion of shadowing to lower board.

First edition. A late nineteenth century novel set in rural Scotland.