Lot 181
KAY, JOHN
A SERIES OF ORIGINAL PORTRAITS AND CARICATURE ETCHINGS
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 January 2019 at 11:00 GMT
£450
Description
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1877. 2 volumes, 4to, 362 plates including 329*, original red quarter morocco, foxing (2)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the late Dr. Nicholas Phillipson, Emeritus Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Phillipson is best known as a leading historian on the Scottish Enlightenment and its wider European context. His best known work is Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life [2010], a detailed biography of the economist which covered new ground and won acclaim.