A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen with Numerous Authentic Portraits
Author:
CHAMBERS, ROBERT & THOMSON, THOMAS (Eds)
Title:
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen with Numerous Authentic Portraits
Subtitle:
Volume 1 ABE-HUM, Volume 2 HUM-YOU plus Supplement
Publisher:
Blackie & Son 1875
Description:
Complete in two volumes including supplement, small quarto, half bound, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to black leather spine, gilt-decorated raised bands to spine & decorative red leather title label between two raised bands, marbled page edges, frontispiece, vi + 689pp in two vols, illus, VG (scuffing to boards & spines, bruising & fraying to spine extrems, 2pages of prelims torn out in volume 2, heavy foxing to eps, light foxing elsewhere, some light insect damage to fep upper edges)
Keywords:
Robert Chambers Thomas Thomson Scotland Scottish history biography Scotsmen reference