223 - Annan, T. The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry. One hundred photographs of well-known places in the neighborhood of Glasgow, with descriptive notices of the houses and the families. Glasgow, Maclehose, 1870. 289 pages. With 102 mounted albumen prints. 4to. Contemporary half-maroon binding with gilt spine title and gilt cover vignette (slightly rubbed).

Annan, T. The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry. One hundred photographs of well-known places in the neighborhood of Glasgow, with descriptive notices of the houses and the families. Glasgow, Maclehose, 1870. 289 pages. With 102 mounted albumen prints. 4to. Contemporary half-maroon binding with gilt spine title and gilt cover vignette (slightly rubbed). First edition. - One of 120 copies. - Thomas Annan (1829-1887), a trained lithographer and engraver, first appeared as a photographer in 1855/56, using the calotype process. After opening a photographic studio and a printing press, he concentrated on architectural photography and became a prominent figure in photography through his photographs of Glasgow's slums.] The family business still exists today as Annan Fine Art Gallery in Glasgow. - The photographs of country houses belonging to Glasgow's landed gentry include Aikenhead House, Annfield, Bardowie, Belvidere House, Craigend Castle, Crossbasket, Gilmorehill, Golfhill House, Mount Vernon, Shawfield, Yorkhill, and others. - Slightly foxed (the photographs themselves are clean), inner hinges cracked. - Contemporary bookplate 'J. Blackwood Greenshields' and a new coat of arms bookplate on a mirror.