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DUTHIE PARK.

The Duthie Park: A Descriptive and Historical Sketch.

Aberdeen: Printed at the Fife Press Office: 1884
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First edition, small 4to (248 x 175 mm), [8], 104pp., with photogravure frontispiece and 4 mounted woodburytype plates, all views by George Washington Wilson, original bevel-edged red cloth, pictorial gilt, waterstain to lower boards, red stain from cloth has bleed through to lower margin of text, a very good working copy. An important photographic record of the opening of this notable Aberdeen park in 1883, the text attributed to James Mitchell as noted in ink of title, the photogravure frontispiece printed by Annan of Glasgow who held the patent for this new process of reproduction.
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