GEDDES KORT 1757.MareMagnum
CHAMBERS R.MareMagnum
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. New Edition, with a Supplemental Volume continuing the Biographies to the Present Time by the Revd. Thos Thomson. SPLENDID SET WITH SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME
18595 vols., roy. 8vo., with 5 engraved frontispieces (original tissue guards present), engraved and printed titles, and 82 fine engraved portraits; strongly bound in contemporary half roan, sides in morocco-grain cloth blocked in blind, backs with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, all other compartments ruled and tooled in blind, gilt tops, red edges, marbled endpapers, boards very lightly age-marked, backstrips lightly chafed at heads and tails else a splendid bright, clean set. The set comprises: vol. I: Abercromby-Creech; vol. II: Crichton-Hamilton; vol. III: Hamilton-M'Gavin; vol. IV: Melville-Young; vol. V: Abercrombie-Wood. Lovely set of the extended version of a standard reference.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Royaume-Uni341,20 €
