Buchan, Peter

Annals Of Peterhead from its Foundation to the present time

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Peterhead printed at the Auchwedden-Press, by the Author, Sold by him, the Booksellers in Peterhead, and the Principal Booksellers in Scotland 1819 First Edition Including an Account of the Rise, Progress, Improvements, Shipping, Manufactures, Commerce, Trade, Wells, Baths, &c. of the Town. Also, a Sketch of the Character of the Inhabitants, their Civil and Ecclesiastical State. An Excursion to the Bullers of Buchan, Slains Castle, &c. With their Description, the Scenery of the Country Round, Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Tour to the Hebrides &c. Biographical notices of men of learning and genius; among whom are George Earl Marischal, founder of the Peterhead, and Marischal College, Aberdeen. With a Number of Curious Articles Hitherto Unpublished. Engraved folding frontispiece of the View of the Town, Harbour and Bay of Peterhead with original hand-colouring (two tears repaired and with old sellotape marks), and four folding plates of Greenland Whale Fishing, Bullers of Buchan, Slains Castle and Raven's Craig all by Buchan. 8vo. [203 x 123 x 21 mm]. [7], 10-144 pp. Bound in contemporary red goatskin, the cover with a gilt border composed of a fillet and dog-tooth roll used twice, a pearl and husk roll and a square-shaped ornament in the corners. Smooth spine divided into six panels by gilt pallets, lettered in the second panel and the others tooled with a central ornament, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with a gilt roll, marbled endleaves and edges. (Rebacked preserving original spine and the corners a little worn). With a preliminary advertisement leaf for "An Historical and Authentic Account of the Ancient and Noble Family of Keith", which was published by Buchan in 1820. The title is a little soiled and has been neatly repaired at the outer margin. The frontispiece has also been repaired but it is a decent copy. Peter Buchan (1790-1854) undertook ten days' training at a chapbook house, the Randall Press, in Sterling, and then set up the first printing shop in Peterhead, where on 24th March 1816 he commenced as jobbing printer, publisher, and general man of letters. "I was obliged", he wrote, "to be author, caseman, pressman, &c. and many.... pages never were in manuscript, being actually composed while printing them". He built a press to his own design to work with the feet instead of the hands and which he claimed could print equally well from stone, copper and wood, and could print on cloth. Besides these local histories he published poems and songs, a miscellany "The Selector", popular theology, political tracts and a play entitled "The Peterhead Smugglers". He was also an assiduous collector of folk-songs.

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