Lot 286
Elliot, Andrew
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs | 09 May 2007
Description
Calotypes by D.O. Hill and R. Adamson. Edinburgh: printed for private circulation, 1928, 4to, number 26 of 38 copies, 47 carbon prints, sitters include Hill, Adamson, William Etty, Lady Eastlake etc with biographies, original red cloth gilt, some fading to backstrip and staining to upper board, owner's ink inscription to front endpaper, bookplate, interior fine
Footnote
Note: A beautiful copy of a very rare book showing the highlights of the Edinburgh publisher, Andrew Elliot's collection. Begun in the last decade of the 19th Century Elliot died before it could be published in 1922. His son George then took up the mantle but unfortunately passed away in 1928 leaving his brother Andrew to publish the final work. The sheets and prints, some of which were produced over 30 years earlier, did not suffice for more than 38 complete copies. These copies were not offered for sale but gifted to specific public collections such as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Schwartz, 1932, page 52)