Author: Various Contributors
Title: Famous Edinburgh Students
Description: London, T. N. Foulis, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this illustrated compilation of famous Edinburgh students. A series of biographical sketches of the most famous Edinburgh students, including David Hume, James Boswell, Sir Walter Scott, Mungo Park, Charles Darwin, and Robert Louis Stevenson among others. Compiled by a variety of contributors such as John Kelman, W S Bruce, and others. With a preface by W. Scott Stevenson. The first edition of this work. Illustrated with twenty-two illustrations tipped in. Collated, complete. With David W H Walton's bookplate to the front free endpaper, British emeritus professor with the British Antarctic Survey. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things&apos. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. With David W H Walton's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor spotting to the endpapers, affecting only slightly the odd leaf. Otherwise, the pages are generally bright and clean throughout. Illustrated with twenty-two illustrations tipped in. Collated, complete. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: edinburgh first editions illustrated books first editions Various
See more books from our catalog: British History
Title: Famous Edinburgh Students
Description: London, T. N. Foulis, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this illustrated compilation of famous Edinburgh students. A series of biographical sketches of the most famous Edinburgh students, including David Hume, James Boswell, Sir Walter Scott, Mungo Park, Charles Darwin, and Robert Louis Stevenson among others. Compiled by a variety of contributors such as John Kelman, W S Bruce, and others. With a preface by W. Scott Stevenson. The first edition of this work. Illustrated with twenty-two illustrations tipped in. Collated, complete. With David W H Walton's bookplate to the front free endpaper, British emeritus professor with the British Antarctic Survey. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things&apos. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. With David W H Walton's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor spotting to the endpapers, affecting only slightly the odd leaf. Otherwise, the pages are generally bright and clean throughout. Illustrated with twenty-two illustrations tipped in. Collated, complete. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: edinburgh first editions illustrated books first editions Various
Price: GBP 60.00 = appr. US$ 85.68 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 794A39
- Book number: 794A39
See more books from our catalog: British History