Scotland's Almanac and National Depository, 1846
with a Register for Edinburgh
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| ISBN 0902664697 |
| SERIES Almanacs and Registers |
| Paperback c 550 pages |
| Subject [Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs
] [Local government
] [Urban communities
] [Northern Scotland,
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| Published 20 June 2003 |
| UK Price £35.00 Order from amazon.co.uk |
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Originally published as part of Oliver and Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository, 1846. It has been (the Publishers’) object to produce a manual or reference which, by systematic arrangement in the original design, and by care and accuracy in its execution, should secure the confidence of the public; and they believe they may without vanity assume that they have ... all the varied fund of information which might appropriately come within the compass of a national Scottish Almanac. ... They have thus succeeded in presenting a compendium of useful intelligence superior to most publications of the kind in the Empire. In England it has often been regretted that there is no annual work of reference so full and comprehensive..... (From the preface.) |
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