An Edinburgh Eleven; Pencil Portraits from College — "British Weekly" Extras, No. III.
London: British Weekly Office, 1889. First Edition, First Issue. 12mo, 7 x 4 1/2 inches (178 x 113 mm); pp. 115 + 4 of publisher's advertising. Red calf binding by Root & Son (stamp on fly leaf) with gold fillets and rosettes on boards, 5 raised bands, gilt decoration and titles in compartments, turn-ins decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, original white paper wrappers printed in red and black bound in, where Barrie's nom-de-plume Gavin Ogilvy is used, advertising on verso of front wrapper for "Auld Licht Idylls" and verso of back wrapper for "When a Man is Single," (making it the First Issue); t.e.g., spine slightly sunned, page edges lightly and uniformly toned but pages clean, firmly bound.
[Cutler 13].
A rare true first issue of Barrie's collection (2nd issue is cloth) in a beautiful leather binding. This is a collection of stories and prose portraits of 7 professors including Robert Louis Stevenson and Lord Rosbery, previously published by The British Weekly between July 1887 and November 1888.
Sir James Matthew BARRIE, 1st Baronet, OM (1860 – 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of PETER PAN.
Condition: Near fine.
Item number: 836
Price: $500.00
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