Lot 92
Annan, Thomas
Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
Glasgow: Thomas Annan, 1871. First edition, 4to (36.2 x 26.2cm), original red quarter morocco, original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, [2] 129 pp., 41 carbon-print photographs, mounted as issued, comprising 15 views and 26 portraits with tissue guards, printed captions or facsimile signatures of sitters to mounts, binding sunned, wear to bottom edges of boards, spotting to mounts
Provenance
The estate of the late Eric Sloane.
Footnote
A handsome memorial volume produced to commemorate the departure of the senate of the University of Glasgow from the Old College Buildings in the city's Blackfriars district. Copies were issued with the photographs as albumen prints or carbon prints, with no priority assigned. ‘On 28th July, 1870, the Senate of the University of Glasgow met for the last time in the Old College Buildings … On that site the work of the University had been carried on for upwards of four hundred and fifty years. It seemed desirable to secure some permanent memorial of the venerable structure before it underwent any change’ (Introductory Note).
