He was also a writer of children's stories and ghost stories including Borrobil (1944), and Dark encounters (1963). Anderson, the Chronicle of Melrose (1936). His publication record includes: The sheriff court book of Fife, 1515-1522 (1928), The Court Book of the Barony of Carnwath, 1523-1542 (1937), and with Dr A. Just prior to his appointment he delivered the Rhind Lectures of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland on the Jurisdiction of medieval Scotland. In 1944 he became Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography at Edinburgh University in 1944, succeeding Professor R.
He was decorated at Passchendaele.Īfter the War and studying, he was Librarian at the London School of Economics Library - the British Library of Political and Economic Science - between 19. During the First World War, and while an undergraduate, he enlisted in the Black Watch and was later commissioned, serving in France and Flanders with 45th Company Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) (15th Scottish Division). Andrews University in Scotland, graduating in 1921 and later proceeding to Ph.D. He was educated at Mill Hill School in London, and then he studied at St.
Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.William Croft Dickinson was born in Leicester on 28 August 1897. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. This tale of hobgoblins and dragons is his first work of fiction. William Croft Dickinson was a leading scholar of Scottish history who also wrote children's fantasy novels and ghost stories. Complete with the good only original illustrated dustwrapper which has loss to the spine tips, tears and chips with associated creasing to the edges, the front flap presumable has been repaired with multiple pieces of tape at the fold.
The contents, with a contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities of the cloth a touch rubbed, the top corners with very minor bumping. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and black and white in-text drawings throughout by John Morton-Sale. Original blue cloth with titles in black to the spine and a motif in black to the upper board, in dustwrapper.
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