The Recreations of Christopher North. Complete in One Volume

8vo, 23cm, 307p., engraved frontis portrait the author in his hunting jacket, printed in double columns, in the original half drak brown calf, tall raised bands, double black leather labels gilt, small blind deice decorations in the panels, marbled boards and endpapers, some wear at the edges, very good attractively bound copy (Lds). - A selection, originally published in 1842, of John North's essays published in "Blackwood's Magazine". Wilson was one of the founders of the magazine in 1817 and as a contributing editor wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North.