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Bookplate inserted; bookseller stamp for A. H. Spencer, Melbourne inside cover, signed in pencil on front endpaper: “Robert Menzies”; some pages earmarked and some passages highlighted in margin with pencil including: [p. 215, earmarked, highlighted passage from poem “A Wish” by George Outram] “An’ While unscrewed, I’d sit an’ brood, An’ think mysel’ weel blessed to ken That when I dee’d I’d spend my bluid To purchase for honest men!”; [p. 265, earmarked, highlighted passage from poem “Sport” by Andrew Lang] “There’s mony a water, great or sma’, Gaes singing in his siller tune, Through glen and heugh, and hope and shaw, Beneath the sun-licht or the moon: But set us in our fishing-shoon Between the Caddon-burn and Peel, And syne we’ll cross the heather broun By fair Tweed-side, at Ashiesteel !”; [p. 287, earmarked, highlighted sentence from “Nature” by John Campell Shairp] “And the Quair burn singing doun to the vale o’ Tweed.”; [p. 370, earmarked, highlighted sentence from “The Northern Muse” by Jean Elliot] “”The Flowers of the Forest are a’ wede away.””