Memorials of His Time - Abridged and edited with notes by W. Forbes Gray with portraits in colour and other illustrations -
Lord Cockburn
1946 - Robert Grant &, Edinburgh - First Abridged Edition
A finely bound first abridged edition of these legendary memoirs of the distinguished Edinburgh barrister, judge and biographer Henry, Lord Cockburn (1779-1854), who served as Solicitor General for Scotland between 1830 and 1834.
With colour illustrations and a foreword with entertaining biography by W. Forbes Gray.
Cockburn contributed regularly to the Edinburgh Review in which he was described as ‘rather below the middle height, firm, wiry and muscular, inured to active exercise of all kinds, a good swimmer, an accomplished skater, an intense lover of the fresh breezes of heaven. He was the model of a high-bred Scotch gentleman. He spoke with a Doric breadth of accent. Cockburn was one of the most popular men north of the Tweed’. Cockburn’s ‘Memorials of His Time’ appeared posthumously in 1856, followed by his ‘Journal’ in 1874, and his ‘Letters’ in 1905.
Octavo (binding size 21.4x14.8cm), pp. xv [1] 279. Bound in quarter green morocco over matching marbled boards, spine decorated, ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge tinted green, marbled endpapers. Condition: Fine in fine binding. Ref: 112246 Price: HK$ 2,000
With colour illustrations and a foreword with entertaining biography by W. Forbes Gray.
Cockburn contributed regularly to the Edinburgh Review in which he was described as ‘rather below the middle height, firm, wiry and muscular, inured to active exercise of all kinds, a good swimmer, an accomplished skater, an intense lover of the fresh breezes of heaven. He was the model of a high-bred Scotch gentleman. He spoke with a Doric breadth of accent. Cockburn was one of the most popular men north of the Tweed’. Cockburn’s ‘Memorials of His Time’ appeared posthumously in 1856, followed by his ‘Journal’ in 1874, and his ‘Letters’ in 1905.
Octavo (binding size 21.4x14.8cm), pp. xv [1] 279. Bound in quarter green morocco over matching marbled boards, spine decorated, ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge tinted green, marbled endpapers. Condition: Fine in fine binding. Ref: 112246 Price: HK$ 2,000