1937 Tk

Copies examined

Private copy:	Alan Guest
Bertram Rota, bookseller:	Cat.224 no.98

Title page

[1]₂^r

The Ballad of Braehead | 'Servitium Lavacri' | [1" double rule] | BY SIR IAN MALCOLM

Imprint

[1]₈^r

Collation

[1]⁸.

Pagination

[1-7] 8-14 [+2].

Technical description

8" × 6¼", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 14(+3)pt. Walbaum hand-set; grey paper wrappers, upper wrapper printed: ‘[within border of 18pt. flowers] The Ballad of Braehead | 'Servitium Lavacri' | [crown] | [signature of James V] | BY IAN MALCOLM’.

Notes

Not in 1963 handlist; not in Curwen Library or B.L..

Rota's catalogue describes this as 8^o and says 'circa 1937'.

'lavacrum' is the Latin for 'bath'.

Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm (1868-1944) was a conservative M.P. and chieftain of the clan Malcolm (or MacCallum).