The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie - The Most Distinguished Scotsman of the Day

1895. First edition. 286pp., a 2 page catalogue, frontispiece portrait, 9 other black and white plates and head and tail chapter decorations. Adverts to endpapers. John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895) was a Scottish scholar and man of letters. After attending classes at Edinburgh University (1825-1826). He spent three years at Aberdeen as a student of theology, and in 1829 he went to Germany. After studying at Göttingen and Berlin he accompanied Bunsen to Italy and Rome. The years spent abroad extinguished his former wish to enter the Church, and at his father's desire he gave himself up to the study of law. Blackie was a Radical and Scottish nationalist in politics; and possessed of great conversational powers and general versatility, his picturesque eccentricity made him one of the characters of the Edinburgh of the day. This is a biographical appreciation of his life and work by various authors including J.M. Barrie, edited by Rev. John G. Duncan of Springburn. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered bevelled boards with gold titling on the spine and black titling with a gold portrait of Blackie on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some light soiling to the boards. There is a little wear to the cloth on the tips of the bottom corners and the spine ends. The spine is faded. The contents are tight and clean with browning and light foxing to the endpapersprelims. Previous owner's address to half title page.…