In the By-Ways of Life: A Series of Sketches of Forfarshire Characters by J.S.Neish
1881. No Edition Remarks. 225 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen and pencil markings to front free endpaper and title page. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.