1869-73 Selected Works of Hugh Miller

Description

Early Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

An eight volume set of selected works by nineteenth-century Scottish geologist, folklorist, and evangelical Hugh Miller. 

Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth. 

This set comprises of: 

The Old Red Sandstone, or, New Walks in an Old Field, the eleventh edition published in 1869. Containing fourteen illustrated plates, one of which is folding, collated and complete. 

My Schools and Schoolmasters, or, The Story of My Education, the twelfth edition published in 1869. 

First Impressions of England and Its People, the ninth edition published in 1869.

Sketch-Book of Popular Geology, the second edition published in 1869. Containing six lectures and lengthy appendix. 

Leading Articles on Various Subjects, the first edition published in 1870. Edited by Miller's son-in-law, Rev. John Davidson. Containing an engraved frontispiece portrait of Miller.

Footprints of the Creator, or, The Asterolepis of Stromness, the twelfth edition published in 1870. Including a memoir written by Louis Agassiz. Including sixty-seven in-text woodcuts, collated and complete. 

Essays Historical and Biographical, Political and Social, Literary and Scientific, the fifth edition published in 1872.

Edinburgh and Its Neighbourhood, Geological and Historical; with the Geology of the Bass Rock, the fifth edition published in 1873. Containing an engraved frontispiece and a further illustrated plate, along with numerous in-text illustrations. Collated and complete.