19th Century Tan Calf Bound Spiritual Communings Sir Archibald Edmonstone 1869
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(EDMONSTONE OF DUNTREATH, SIR ARCHIBALD) SPIRITUAL COMMUNINGS BY SIR ARCHIBALD EDMONSTONE, BART. RIVINGTONS, LONDON, OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE. 1869 1 vol., 16mo. pp. [6], 142. The binding is full tan calf with blind stamped ruled lines to boards and spine. Red morocco title panel. 5 raised bands with gilt stamped cording design. Marbled endpapers and fore edges. Edmonstone's heraldic bookplate to front pastedown endpaper. Binding by J. Carss of Glasgow, a highly regarded 19th century British bookbinder. Some small abrasions to the calf. A number of 19th century engravings glued in as a sort of scrapbook. Edmonstone, Sir Archibald , third baronet (1795–1871), writer and explorer , the eldest son of Sir Charles Edmonstone of Duntreath Castle, Stirlingshire, second baronet, and his first wife, Emma, fifth daughter of Richard Wilbraham Bootle of Rode Hall, Cheshire, and sister of Edward Bootle Wilbraham, first Baron Skelmersdale, was born at 32 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London, on 12 March 1795. He entered Eton College in 1808 and moved in 1812 to Christ Church, Oxford, where he proceeded BA on 29 November 1816. In 1819 he went to Egypt, publishing A Journey to Two of the Oases of Upper Egypt in 1822. At the death of his father, on 1 April 1821, he succeeded to the baronetcy, and unsuccessfully contested his father's constituency
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