Shelfmark
Id4.5.24(02)
Author
Title
Burns / by Thomas Carlyle.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chapman and Hall, 1853.
Physical description
[4], 88 p. : port. (engraving) ; 17 cm.
Series statement
(Biographical essays ; no. 2)
Note
On verso of title-page: "First printed in the Edinburgh Review, no.XCVI (December, 1828), as a review of the book entitled, The life of Robert Burns, by J.G. Lockhart, LL.B. Edinburgh, 1828. Reprinted here without alteration".
Provenance
From the library of Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
Provenance
Ms. inscription by Thomas Carlyle on series title-page.
Provenance
Bookplate of Eleanor Berta Mary Locker in front of bound volume.
Provenance
Ms. letter to ?Eleanor Berta Mary Locker from Walter Herries Pollock bound into rear of volume, dated 1869.
Binding
Black morocco, gold tooling on boards and spine, gilt edges; bound by Holloway.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: 1.3.39.
Copy-specific note
Photograph of Thomas Carlyle pasted into front endpaper.
Subject
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Added entry--name
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837 - 1919 former owner.
Added entry--name
Locker, Eleanor Bertha Mary former owner.
Added entry--name
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795 - 1881 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Ritchie, Emily former owner.
Added entry--name
Pollock, Walter Herries (), 1850 - 1926 former owner.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B31092