A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases : based on Macintosh's collection /
Gillies,Father, Blairs College,former owner.NLS: Oban.75
Macintosh, Donald,1743-1808.
Nicolson, Alexander,1827-1893,editor.
Nicolson, Alexander,1827-1893,inscriber.StEdNL: Cam.2.e.27
Campbell, J. F.(John Francis),1822-1885,former owner.StEdNL: Cam.2.e.27
Catholic Church.Diocese of Argyll and the Isles (Scotland),former owner.NLS: Oban.75
Edinburgh : Maclachlan and Stewart ; London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.,
1881.
Printer named on colophon: A. King and Co., Printers, Aberdeen.
Inscription on recto of first free leaf: Ex libris Dioecesis Ergadien. et Insul.
Inscription on the recto of first free leaf: Presented to Father Gillies, Blairs College by Mrs Thomson, Brackenhill, Aberdeen.
A letter dated 1881 by the editor Alexander Nicolson to Campbell has been affixed to the recto of the front free endpaper. A second letter by Campbell, dated 1882, concerning the book and the Gaelic language has been affixed to the recto of the first back flyleaf. There are manuscript inscriptions on the recto of the half title page with the Campbell's signature dated 1881, and marginalia at pages 1, 4, 5 and 115.
Proverbs, Scottish Gaelic.