WOOD, Lawson (author and illustrator). The Scot ‘Scotched’. London George Newnes Limited. [1927.] Signed

Tall large 8vo., 158 x 252mm; bound in publisher’s pictorial glazed card wrappers with flaps, sewn; illustrated throughout in black and white with 15 full-page plates in half-tones; a good copy with external soiling, marking and rubbing to edges; internally generally clean, with some sporadic foxing; books signed by Lawson Wood are rare.

First edition, signed in ink by the author/illustrator to the title-page. Humorous verses largely on the subject of Scottish (and Jewish) parsimony, and whisky. Only 6 copies located on WorldCat (BL Ref.; Vrije Univ., Amsterdam; B.L.; Trinity, Dublin; Nat. Lib. of Scotland; Univ. of Oxford).