Published by Blackie and Son, 23-3, 1856
Seller: Quality Books UK, Derby, DERBY, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket.
Published by Blackie & Son, Glasgow, 1856
Hardcover. Condition: Good. New edition, revised under the care of the publishers. 604 p. 24 cm. Title page vignette and 20 portrait plates. Half leather with brown paper boards. Marbled text block edge. Lower spine label missing. Boards rubbed and edges worn. One plate detached. A few pages loosening. Tear at top of p. 259. Originally edited by Robert Chambers. With a Supplemental Volume, Continuing the Biographies to the Present Time by Rev. Thos. Thomson.
Published by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London., 1855
Hardcover. Condition: Good. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. In Four Volumes. Originally edited by Robert Chambers. New Edition, Revised Under the Care of the Publishers. With A Supplemental Volume, Continuing the Biographies to the Present Time. By the Rev. Thos. Thomson. With Numerous Portraits. This is Volume V (the Supplemental Volume); Abercrombie Wood. Published by Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London. 1855. A good hardback with brown calf leather spine and corners. Marbled paper over boards. Covers scuffed and bumped with wear to edges. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. Small bookseller's sticker to first pastedown. Soundly bound. Previous owner's signature to first free endpaper. Text is generally very good throughout. Plates have some spotting and offsetting spotting to neighboring text pages. Spotting to endpapers. iv + 668pp + Plates. Dimensions: approx 242mm high x 161mm wide x 45mm deep. Weight: approximately 1212g (unpacked). More photos on request.
Seller: Oast Park Books, Southend -on- Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
1859. Blackie and Son. Hardback. Book - VG. Ex-lib.
Seller: Oast Park Books, Southend -on- Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
1858. Blackie and Son. Hardback. Book - VG. Ex-lib, rebound in library binding.