The Pictorial History of Scotland Volume II, (ONLY) weighs 4+ lbs, which = extra postage

London & New York: James S. Virtue, no date 1852 or1884 ?. Half-bound Calf. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Jumbo octavo, [25cm/10 inches], full gilt-embossed ebony-coloured half-bound calf/ grey boards sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 466-808; 1-375 . Illustrated w/ fine photogravures. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Taylor's published oeuvre includes: The Pictorial History of Scotland, London, 1852–9, 2 vols. enlarged edition, 1884–8, 6 vols. The Scottish Covenanters, London, 1881. The Age we live in: a History of the Nineteenth Century, Glasgow, 1884. Curling, the ancient Scottish Game, Edinburgh, 1884; 2nd ed. 1887, The Great Historic Families of Scotland, London, 1887, 2 vols.; 2nd ed. 1891–4.Taylor also enlarged and continued Patrick Fraser Tytler's History of Scotland, (1845, 1851, 1863); abridged John Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, 1849; and edited The Family History of England, London, 1870–5, 6 vols. He contributed articles to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Imperial Dictionary of Biography, and United Presbyterian Magazine, and published some sermons and pamphlets. The Victorian Empire: a brilliant epoch of our national history (3 vols.) was edited by Taylor and published posthumously in 1897-8; it includes a life of Queen Victoria, essays on Victorian science and on the Indian Empire and other colonial territories.