Description

Seeley Service & Co [Published Date: 1956]. Hardcover, 351 pp. No other printings listed. Very good in good dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with black block and gold lettering on spine. Light scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's coat of arms stamped in ink on front free end paper. Otherwise page are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 2.5" diagonal tear to the paper over the top edge of the back cover that has been repaired with tape and a few other smaller chips and tears and creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. Color and black and white illustrations. [from jacket flaps] This is a record of the Scottish Regiments - those raised in Scotland and those formed by Scotsmen throughout the Commonwealth and Empire. The fighting reputation of the Scottish, springing from the turbulent history of the Clans, has carried the national characteristics to the ends of the earth. The warlike histories of the Scottish and Empire-Scottish Regiments recorded here are accompanied by a large number of colour plates, remarkable for their precision in detail and for their inherent decorative quality. These illustrations are a most important part of the book. They will be invaluable to Theatrical costumiers, Film producers, artists, military tailors, makers of model soldiers, and many others, quite apart from the general reader. The story of the tartans and the kilt and the pipes, the regimental badges, uniforms and battle honours are all told with discrimination, without losing in the mass the inherent splendour of the subject. This is indeed a book to warm the hearts of Scotsmen at home, in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or wherever they may be, for the call to arms has always found them ready to defend their adopted country with the same efficiency and fervour that they have shewn for their native land. The Author has given us a rich store of accurate and fascinating detail in his beautiful illustrations and has woven together the histories of the Scottish fighting units like the lines in a tartan sett.