ROXBURGHSHIRE. [WALDIE (John)]. A Catalogue of Pictures, Statues, Busts, Antique Columns, Bronzes, Fragments of Antique Buildings, Tables of Florentine and Roman Mosaic, Scagliola and Inlaid Wood; Indian, Neopolitan and other China, with notices of the large Collection of Books in the various apartments at Hendersyde Park : to which is added some particulars of the exterior of the house and adjoining buildings, and of the pleasure grounds, gardens, walks, shrubberies, and woods, and of the Island of Sharpitlaw, with its wood and walks, and the suspension bridge leading from the walk on the north side of the mill stream to the island.1859

[Kelso: Printed for Private Circulation [by Robert Stewart], Second edition, 8vo (185 x 120), xiv, 212, [2]pp., with half-title and final leaf of supplement/errata, with tinted lithographed frontispiece view of the house (foxed), marbled endpapers, contemporary smooth black calf, boards with double gilt fillet border and greek-key border in blind within, spine lettered in gilt direct. The house, now much altered, with its remarkable art collected from the 18th Century onwards was a notable feature of the Kelso landscape, on the banks of the River Tweed. A catalogue of the contents was first published in 1835. "John Waldie's own 1859 catalogue of the possessions of Hendersyde provides a good description of the pleasure grounds and describes some of the newer features, such as a recently established north approach, lined with shrubberies and plantations, a number of new estate buildings, many built by local architect, William Cockburn, and a new tunnel under the road which led to the bridge to Sharpitlaw Anna... John Waldie died a bachelor and over the course of the later 19th century and early 20th century, the estate passed to the descendants of his sister Maria Jane and her husband, Richard Griffith."—Historic Environment Scotland website. It is said that Sir Walter Scott was a user of the extensive library. Provenance: Presentation inscription from Mr Waldie to Mr Grieve (his neighbour), engraved armorial bookplate of Grieve of Eastfield, Berwickshire, to front paste-down; the library of Josceline Grove, with bookplate and their typed catalogue description pasted to front endpapers. Holmes, p.313; Cooper II, pp.135-36.