A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. New edition.

  • Kay, John
  • Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1877

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Description

2 vols., 4to, pp. viii, 445, [1]; viii, 504 + 362 plates (one folding). Original quarter dark green morocco, cloth boards, spines lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Just a touch of spotting. A little light rubbing, some wear to extremities. Ownership ink stamps to Walter Thomson Currie, Dundee to tittle-pages.

Notes

The third edition of this collection of Kay's works, originally published four decades earlier. This was the last use of the original copper plates, which had passed from Hugh Paton to A. & C. Black; they were touched up for this edition and destroyed afterward, with a small number of left over sheets being bound in four volumes the following year. This copy, although clearly in a publisher's binding, is in green rather than the more common burgundy.

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