Item #262127 A Catalogue of Some of the Rarer Books, also Manuscripts, in the Collection of C.E.S. Chambers, Edinburgh. With a Bibliogrpahy of the Works of William and Robert Chambers. C. E. S. Chambers.

A Catalogue of Some of the Rarer Books, also Manuscripts, in the Collection of C.E.S. Chambers, Edinburgh. With a Bibliogrpahy of the Works of William and Robert Chambers.

Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1898.

Price: $250.00


About the item

First edition. Engraved portraits of Robert and William Chambers. [iv], 60 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth. Near fine. Bookplate of Catherine Kinnear.

Item #262127

Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Thomas Hutchinson Esqr, with all good wishes from C.E. Chambers, Edinburgh. January, 1899." With an ALS laid-in from Chambers to Hutchinson. Chambers’ collection consited mostly of Romantic and Victorian literature, including a large run of Dickens first editions.