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![[picture: Front Cover, The Scott Country]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-349x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, The Scott Country]")
Pictures from The Scott Country - beautiful Scotland, Described by John Geddie, Painted by E. W. Haslehust, R.B.A. [1866 – 1949], Blackie & Son Ltd., London and Glasgow.
I don’t have an exact date for this book; probably 1920, although the cover under the dost jacket is plain: after about 1911 they started to have pictures on them.
The artist died more than 70 years ago, so these illustrations are out of copyright.
Title: The Scott Country
City: London
Date: 1920
Total items: 10
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Melrose Abbey: Choir and North Transept]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/wm/big/36-Melrose-abbey-q75-297x200.jpg "[picture: Melrose Abbey: Choir and North Transept]")
Melrose Abbey: Choir and North Transept
“Melrose—“the light of the land, the abode of saints, the grave of monarchs” – is a glorious fragment, more beautiful, perhaps in detail than in general effect, in ornament than in design; and memorable even more for its legendary and literary [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Dryburgh Abbey]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/wm/big/28-Dryburgh-abbey-295x200.jpg "[picture: Dryburgh Abbey]")
![[picture: Front Cover, The Scott Country]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-140x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, The Scott Country]")
Front Cover, The Scott Country
My copy has a repair to a tear on the dust jacket. The picture on the cover is Branxholm Tower, reproduced slightly better inside the book. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Neidpath Castle]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/wm/big/63-Neidpath-castle-q75-294x200.jpg "[picture: Neidpath Castle]")
“A mile out of [Peebles], to the west, is Neidpath Castle, the most commandingly and romantically situated, and, in spite of the yawning gaps made in its walls by Cromwell’s cannon, the best-preserved—Traquair excepted—of the strongholds of the olden time on Tweed. The river is here constricted by the bare cairn-strewn ridge of Caidmuir—once Peebles Common—on the south, and by the Edston heights on [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Kelso: The River Tweed and Abbey Ruins]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/wm/big/04-Kelso-river-tweed-and-abbey-ruins-297x200.jpg "[picture: Kelso: The River Tweed and Abbey Ruins]")
Kelso: The River Tweed and Abbey Ruins
Kelso is a town in the Borders; the abbey was mostly destroyed at the English Reformation. [more...] [$]
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