Lot 191
Kay, John
Books, Maps, Photographs & Manuscripts
Auction: 12 July 2005 at 13:00 BST
£359
Description
A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings... new edition, 2 volumes, 362 etched plates (incluluding 329*), one folding, half-titles, contemporary maroon quarter morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, Edinburgh, 1877
Footnote
Note: A barber by trade John Kay drew and later etched portraits of all the leading Scottish figures of his day from the economist Adam Smith and political revolutionary John Paine to well known local figures such as "Mortar Willie", aged 107, and Colonel Monro, a well known Edinburgh beggar. Plate 242 is an early etching of the game of golf, played by Alexander M'Kellar "or The Cock o' the Green".