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.