A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

A secondary binding exists within the same printing (Blackwood's own records, as reported by the collector Richie McCaffery, account for 525 copies across primary and secondary bindings), so the 1926 Blackwood imprint and the viii + 108 collation — not the binding alone — settle the edition; dealers describe the blue cloth with gilt vignette as 'the correct first issue'