1869-74 Selected Works of Hugh Miller

Description

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

Presenting this three volume set of selected works by nineteenth-century Scottish geologist and evangelical, Hugh Miller. 

Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding.

Comprising of:

Edinburgh and Its Neighbourhood, Geological and Historical; with the Geology of the Bass Rock, the third edition published in 1869. Containing three full page plates, collated and complete.

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

The Old Red Sandstone, or, New Walks in an Old Field, the eighteenth edition published in 1873. Containing fourteen illustrated plates, one of which is folding, collated and complete. 

My Schools and Schoolmasters, or, The Story of My Education, the twenty-fourth edition published in 1874. Containing an engraved frontispiece portrait of Miller. This copy was previously owned by noted British scholar and educator, John Dewar Denniston, and his bookplate can be found to the front pastedown. 

Uncommon works. 

Containing a previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper of My Schools and Schoolmasters.

Also containing a previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper of The Old Red Sandstone.