Physical description

Weld's Highlands: Two Months in the Highlands Orcadia and Skye
Author: Charles Richard Weld
Publisher: Longman Green Longman Roberts
Date: 1860
Light and dark diagonally striped hardcover with a brown spine and reinforced corners. The spine has a label with an inscription.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Label on spine cover with typed text "RH 914.11 WEL"

Summary

Charles Richard Weld (1813–1869) was an English writer and legal‑trained man who became best known for “A History of the Royal Society”, with Memoirs of the Presidents (1848), which is regarded as the first substantial institutional history of the Royal Society and remains a standard reference on early British science.
Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye is a 1860 travel book by him, published in London and listed as a first edition. Weld is also known as an historian of the Royal Society.
It should be noted that the subject work is sometimes catalogued with “Orcadia” and sometimes with “Orcadia and Skye” in slightly different punctuation, but the core bibliographic details are the same. With Weld as author and 1860 as the publication year, and Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts as publisher.