Half-hours with the best authors : including biographical and critical notices by Charles Knight ; with fifty-two illustrations by William Harvey.
Charles Knight (1791-1873)
Category
Books
Date
1880
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Cherryburn, Northumberland
NT 3229975
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition remodelled and revised. by the original editor. 4 v. : ill. ; 18 cm. Between endpapers of vol. 1: A loosely inserted note in a modern hand with (amongst others) a reference to William Harvey being "an outstanding pupil and assistant of Thomas Bewick. Later designer to Thurston". Provenance: Inscribed on upper pastedown of vol. 1: "Sophia A. Graham from her most aff. Aunt Co[hn?] Xmas /80". Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's blind and black embossed full brown cloth. Black lettering on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. Mould staining on vols 3 and 4.
Makers and roles
Charles Knight (1791-1873) William Harvey (1796-1866)