Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk, in the parish of Pyketillim; with glimpses of the parish politics about A.D. 1843. [By W. Alexander. Reprinted from the 'Aberdeen Free Press.'
A Scots-dialect novel of Aberdeenshire parish life by William Alexander, first serialised in the Aberdeen Free Press and issued in this illustrated edition by David Douglas of Edinburgh in 1881 for a Scottish reading public. The twenty plates are pen-and-ink bust portraits of the characters, each named in a caption, set in ruled frames on tinted stock, with hatched backgrounds and close attention to weathered faces, caps, bonnets and stocks.
