Fine Books & Manuscripts

LOCKHART, John Gibson (1794–1854) (“John Morris”). Peter's Letters to his Kinfolk. Edinburgh and London:William Blackwood, T. Cadell and W. Davies. 1819. 3 volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece in Vol. I, engraved title vignettes, numerous illustrations and plates. (Minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spine label gilt, John Tod binder’s ticket (professionally re–backed with original spines laid down, corners rubbed, renewed endpapers in Vol. I and III). Third edition and second collected edition of Lockhart’s satirical letters.