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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: Bemersyde House]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/wm/big/32-Bemersyde-house-q75-135x200.jpg "[picture: Bemersyde House]")
“This Bemerside Hill is a ‘Mount of vision’ from which all the chief shrines and high places of the Scott Country can be surveyed, at least with the mind’s eye. Abbortsford itself, if not in actual view, can be mapped into the scene by direction and position Out of sight, directly under the brow of the hill, is the ancient square fortalice, with later [...] king, and when Thomas the Rhymer was their neighbour and wellwisher, and uttered the prophecy that has so mightiliy helped its own fulfilment: [more...] [$]
![[picture: Roxburgh Castle]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/wm/big/17-Roxburgh-castle-297x200.jpg "[picture: Roxburgh Castle]")
Says Discover the Borders, “The ruins of the famous castle of Roxburgh, favourite of Scottish kings, seated on its massive grassy mound between the Rivers Tweed and Teviot.” [more...] [$]
![[picture: Dryburgh Abbey]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/wm/big/28-Dryburgh-abbey-295x200.jpg "[picture: Dryburgh Abbey]")
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Kelso: The River Tweed and Abbey Ruins]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/HHScott/wm/big/04-Kelso-river-tweed-and-abbey-ruins-297x200.jpg "[picture: Kelso: The River Tweed and Abbey Ruins]")
Kelso: The River Tweed and Abbey Ruins
Kelso is a town in the Borders; the abbey was mostly destroyed at the English Reformation. [more...] [$]
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