This collection consists of typed and holograph contracts, correspondence, and associated materials concerning the publication of Robert J. Naismith’s Buildings of the Scottish Countryside (Gollancz, 1985). This publication was developed from 1982 onwards by David Burnett of Gollancz and Jan Magnus Fladmark of the Countryside Commission for Scotland. In 1982, the CCS commissioned a report on vernacular architecture in rural Scotland, which was written by the architect and local historian Robert Naismith. Burnett and Fladmark agreed that the report should from the basis of a book for the general reading public, that Naismith should be retained as its author, and that the book should be issued in association with the publisher Peter Crawley. It was published in April 1985, with a paperback edition appearing in June 1989.

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