Book Description

Quarto. [viii], xxii, 419 (1). Vignette title page, plus two frontispiece portraits of Urquhart, and a page illustrating the trissotetras, head and tail pieces to text. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, edges speckled, upper corner to pages 80-90 marked, coming over the page number and just touching the text, last leaf foxed to verso, otherwise very clean, and printed on thick paper throughout. An extremely rare production of the Maitland Club, devoted to an equally unusual figure in Scottish history, a note to the front pastedown suggests that 92 copies were printed. Consists of an introduction, list of the members of the Maitland Club, and the following works by Urquhart: Epigrams; The Trissotetras; IIantoxponoxanon, or a peculiar promptuary of time; Ekskybalaypon, or, the Discovery of a most exquisite Jewel; Logopandecteision, or an introduction to the universal language, and Proquiritations
Author URQUHART, Sir Thomas. Maitland, T. (editor)
Date 1834
Binding Hardcover
Publisher Edinburgh, H. and J. Pillans for the Maitland Club.
Condition Good

Price: £200.00

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