HONEYMAN, William C. [aka James McGovan]

Jock Howieson, Or The Lass O’ Cramond Brig: A Romance of Old Edinburgh

£120.00

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Publisher: John Menzies

Year: 1893

Edition: First

Format: Softcovers

Signed: 1

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First edition in the original illustrated wrappers, frayed to the lower spine and a little foxed to the edges. Inscription to the title page ‘with the author’s compliments’ . A Good+ copy of a scarce item. Allegedly Jock Howieson escued James V from a gang of gipsies or robbers while His Majesty was in disguise as the Laird of Ballengeich. There is a house said to be his at Cramond village on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The tale was told originally by Walter Scott in his ‘Tales of a Grandfather’ and may be apocryphal. The author is better known under his pseudonym James McGovan under which he wrote early crime stories (published as factual)

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