List of books for the "Famous Scots Series"
An upmarket version has gilded lettering and motifs on the front cover and has gilt tape as book marker.
Three of the women wrote biographies of Robert Louis Stevenson, namely, Margaret Moyes Black, Rosaline Masson and Eve Blantyre Simpson.
No more books in this series were published, as is evidenced by the following report in the New York Times in 1904: "LONDON, Sept. 16.
-- Andrew Carnegie has written a little book on James Watt, the great engineer.
It will be the concluding volume of the Famous Scots Series, published by Messrs. Oliphant, Anderson Ferrier.
Front cover of
James Watt
, no. 42 in the series. This shows the gilt upmarket version of the book