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is one of the late Mr. Archibald Constable), having fallen into the hands of the
Publishers, have been added to the Second Volume, together with some notes
on the text by Professor Daniel Wilson, author of “Memorials of Edinburgh
in the Olden Time.”
In the preparation of the present Edition no expense has been spared to
obtain the best results as regards the printing of both plates and text. In
point, therefore, of completeness and general execution, this Edition will bear
favourable comparison with its predecessors.
The Publishers have great satisfaction in being enabled to resuscitate this
work ; but this, they regret to say, is practicable only to a limited extent, and
they have therefore to announce that-the Edition of the engravings now issued
must necessarily be the last of Kay’s Original Portraits.
EDINBURGNHo,v ember 15, 1877.