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CROMBIE, Benjamin W.
Modern Athenians, a series of original portraits of memorable citizens of Edinburgh.
This series of portraits were originally published in separate parts ...they were afterward collected and published. Full page hand colored engravings with standing figures on the left page walking to the right, and on the right page, walking to the left, as if the figures are passing each other on the street; some figures shake hands across the 'gutter' of the book.
- Published
- Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1882.
- Plates
- 49
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1882.
- Ref
- 294
Limited FIRST EDITION. 290 x 230 mm (4to). Forty-eight hand-coloured double plates, each depicting two gentlemen in the street dress of the period (the mid-19th century). These make for far more exciting and attractive plates than might be assumed. Quarter-leather cover, with maroon boards, and rule on gilt. Title to spine in gilt, in good condition, with marbled endpapers. Boards lightly rubbed with corner wear, some scuffing of leather spine, page edge darkening. The illustrations are very good and bright. Limited edition of 1040 copies, after which the plates were destroyed. Title on spine bright. Binding tight. Plates and text clean with only the occasional light fox mark on tissue and pages. Tissue protectors remain between the sides of many plates. Coloured plates in order: 1. The Author of Waverley. 2. Alexander Youngson / John Sheriff. 3. Rev David Dickson / Rev R.S. Candlish. 4. Lt Gen Ainslie / Bindon Blood. 5. Robert Thomson / Robert Hunter. 6. Rev Patrick Clason / Rev Robert Gordon. 7. John Jeffrey / Charles Kilpatrick Sharpe. 8. Rev John Hunter / Prof Alexander Brunton. 9. John Irvine / Capt Hugo Arnot. 10. Robert Thomson / Alexander Douglas. 11. James Jollie / Robert Sym. 12. George Sandy / James Peddie. 13. Prof John Wilson / George Joseph Bell. 14. Lord Cunninghame / Lord Gillies 15. Adam Duff / Lord Cockburn. 16. Sir James Gibson-Craig / Sir Thomas Dick-Lauder. 17. Robert Forsyth / John S. More. 18. Dr. Burt / Roger Aytoun. 19. Lord Robertson / Rt Hon. John Hope. 20. Rev William Muir / Walter Cook. 21. Alexander Kidston / John Jardine. 22. John Menzies / Rev Thomas Guthrie. 23. James Ayton / Alexander Robertson. 24. Rev J.W. Ferguson / Bishop Terrot. 25. George Thomson / J.F. Williams. 26. Lord Jeffrey / Lord Murray. 27. Lord Dundreman / Adam Anderson. 28. William Galloway / Patrick Neill. 29. Rev Mr. Russell / Hector McNeill. 30. W. Burn Callender / Sir C. Menteith. 31. Robert Hadley / George Dunlop. 32. John Marshall / Robert Whigham. 33. David Tweedie / John Tweedie. 34. Patrick Shaw / Hercules Robertson. 35. Rev Dr. Chalmers / Rev Principal Lee. 36. Capt. Thomas Fraser / Major Pearson. 37. James Gillespie Graham / Thomas Hamilton. 38. Captain Jocelyn / Lt Gen Sir Neil Douglas. 39. Professor Ayton / Alexander Smellie. 40. Lord Colonsay / John Learmonth. 41. Captain Robertson / John A Bertram. 42. Lord Moncrieff / Robert Bell. 43. George Combe / John Gray. 44. Archdeacon Williams / Rev Thomas G. Suther. 45. Robert Scott Moncrieff / William Murray. 46. Robert Mercer / Alexander Youngson. 47. James Simson / Professor Munro. 48. Walter Duthie / Alexander Cleghorn. 49. Charles Cuningham / Adam Black.
