Quasi Cursores: Portraits of the High Officers and Professors of the University of Edinburgh

William Hole

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1884

Beschreibung

A beautiful collection of portraits of the professors at the University of Edinburgh by William Hole. Including portraits of the Lord Provost George Harrison, John Stuart Blackie, Peter Guthrie Tait, David Masson, James Muirhead, John Kirkpatrick, Norman MacPherson and William Rutherford.Drawn and etched by William Brassey Hole, a Scottish artist, etcher and engraver. This was the first work to be illustrated by Hole, who also illustrated books by Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie and Robert Burns.Illustrated with forty-six portraits, one for each professor represented. Collated, complete.From the library of David W. H. Walton, an ecologist and professor with the British Antarctic Survey.A limited edition, with seven hundred and fifty copies produced in quarto, this being No. 303. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; spine is slight bumped to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine. Internally, binding is a little tender in places. Pages have the odd spot. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 794R33

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Quasi Cursores: Portraits of the High ...

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

Erscheinungsdatum: 1884

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: William Hole

Zustand: Very Good

Art des Buches: book