The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry | Goblinshead | A comprehensive guide to 4,100 castles, towers, historic houses, stately homes and family lands
The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry | Goblinshead | A comprehensive guide to 4,100 castles, towers, historic houses, stately homes and family lands
The Castles of Scotland
The Castles of Scotland 

Publication History

*** SIXTH EDITION IN PREPARATION ***

This is a huge undertaking but we hope to have the book

ready in summer 2023.

More info to follow shortly…

 

The first edition of this book was published in 1995, and covered around 1,700 castles and other sites. The book was very well received and sold out quite quickly. Only a paperback was produced. This was the first title published by Goblinshead.

ISBN: 9781899874002 (paperback)

 

The second edition, covering about 2,000 places, followed in 1997, also by Goblinshead. This also did very well (despite a notorious problem with the missing J Section), and also sold. Again the book was only issued in paperback.

ISBN: 9781899874101 (paperback)

 

The third edition took longer to produce, having expanded to some 2,700 entries, and was published in 2001. Both a paperback edition and a deluxe hardback edition were published by Goblinshead, the hardback also with a colour section. This third edition was the most successful yet.

ISBN: 9781899874279 (hardback)

ISBN: 9781899874262 (paperback)

View of the cover of The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry and published by Goblinshead, third edition The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry, third edition cover

The fourth edition was published by Birlinn, and ran to some 3,000+ sites, and was published as hardback with a dust jacket in 2006. There was no paperback edition, despite one being promised.

The move to Birlinn was bitterly regretted by the author.

ISBN: 9781841584492 (hardback)

 

The fifth edition happily returned to Goblinshead, and both deluxe hardback with 64 pages of colour and a paperback edition were published. Both editions of the were book sold out by July 2019.

9781899874569 (hardback)

9781899874552 (paperback)

 

A sixth edition is in preparation, with more than 5,000+ entries, plus more illustrations, detailed family ownership and online maps and indexes.

View of the cover of The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry and published by Goblinshead, fifth edition The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry, fifth edition cover

New sixth edition in preparation: more than 1,500 additional sites, hundreds more illustrations, comprehensive online maps and indexes, and much much more.

Due for 2024, and still a huge amount of work to do … more info to follow soon.

Check any and all opening and access information with the sites themselves…

Contact

Goblinshead

Cockenzie House
22 Edinburgh Road
Cockenzie

EH32 0HY

 

Email: info@thecastlesofscotland.co.uk

 

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