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ANNAN, THOMAS. The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow. Introduction by William Young. With 50 photogravures of Scotland's urban poor and the areas in which they lived. Folio, rose cloth with the gilt armorial vignette of Glasgow on front board and another gilt symbol on the rear board, edges worn, top and bottom of joints split; light soiling to preliminaries, offsetting, minor soiling on margins of plates. first expanded edition. Glasgow, 1900
The first expanded edition and the first issued with photogravures. Two issues were published in 1900, each of 100 copies: one in blue cloth printed using inferior paper and the present more desirable issue in rose cloth, this being specially printed for the Corporation of Glasgow in a cloth binding, gilt embossed with the arms of the city.
