a collection of 18 carbon prints, portraits of Scottish artists, clergy etc., produced from the original 1840's calotype negatives by Thomas Annan & Co., all mounted on pages from the folio 1928 publication with biographical notes on the sitters and a five-page history of early photography by John M Gray. Sitters include Thomas Chalmers, William Leighton Leitch, John Gibson, Mark Napier, Sir John McNeill, David Scott, William Etty, Thomas Duncan, The Marquis of Northampton, Sir William Allan, Lord Cockburn, John Gibson Lockhart, most prints 20cm x 15cm, some smaller, contained in a modern A3 display portfolio.

Note: A limited edition of just 38 numbered examples of the volume, originally with 47 portraits was published by A Elliot, great-nephew of David Hill and son of Andrew Elliot senior (1830-1922) These portraits are from an extra set of carbon prints that were never bound into a numbered set.