Wilson, John [1785 - 1854]. McKenzie, R. Shelton - Contributor - NOCTES AMBROSIANÆ.; With Memoirs and Notes by R. Shelton MacKenzie, D. C. L.

New York: Redfield, 1855. Original green coarse cord-grain cloth with spine lettered in gilt & boards stamped in blind. 4 volumes (xxviii, 486, [8 pp publisher catalogue]; xxxvi, 432; xvi, 469; xxii, 468 pp). Frontis in volumes 1 - 3. 12mo. 5 1/4" x 7 5/8". VG (sq & tight/spine sunned/prior owner sig to ffep/bpt/usual light foxing). Wilson the 'Christopher North' of Blackwood's & the professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University. Per the DNB, in Noctes Ambrosianæ: "Here at last was a great conversationalist writing as he talked.." The 4 volumes cover the period August 1819 to November 1831, with some contributions by his Blackwood colleagues- Wm Maginn, J. G. Lockhart, James Hogg, et al.

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