Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh...
Stewart, Charles [b.1841]. Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1901. xii, 158, [1] pp. Portrait frontispiece. Plates with tissue overlays. Hardcover. Original cloth, gilt title to front board, deckle top and fore-edges. Moderate shelfwear, hinges cracked but secure. Signed "From the Author" slip tipped-in to front free endpaper. Light foxing to a few leaves, interior otherwise fresh. $35. * "I have for some years past felt a vague desire to contribute something, however slight, towards the preservation of the recollection of the old Scottish judges of forty years ago--the men not of past generations, but conspicuous and noteworthy figures who had come within my own personal knowledge and acquaintance. The self-imposed task, or rather relaxation, has been delightful pastime to myself, and I have been encouraged to believe that it might interest a somewhat wider, though still of course a narrow, circle.": Preface xi.
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