Author: Lord Cockburn
Title: Life of Lord Jeffrey
Description: Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1852 . Leather. The second edition of Lord Cockburn's touching biographical work on his lifelong friend, Lord Francis Jeffrey. The second edition. Published the same year as the first. Complete in two volumes. Bound in half calf with marbled paper-covered boards. This biographical work surrounds the life and correspondence of Lord Jeffrey, who was a Scottish Judge and literary critic. These volumes were written by fellow Scottish lawyer Lord Cockburn, who was such a great friend of Jeffrey that the two were buried side-by-side in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. With a frontispiece to volume one. Collated, complete. With the bookplate of Scottish philanthropist, Alexander Stone, the namesake of the Sir Alexander Stone Building at Glasgow University.From the library of Christopher Foyle, the previous chairman of Foyle's Bookshop. Bound in half calf with marbled paper-covered boards. Externally, generally smart, with slight rubbing to the leather. A few small tidemarks to the leather. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot and handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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