[Rarebooks] James Stewart Blackie

[Mark Stirling]

For Sale from Up-Country Letters, South Lake Tahoe, California:

 

Carlyle, Thomas.   Chartism.  London:  James Fraser, 1840.  First edition, first printing.  Original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt, Tarr's binding B, no priority established (Tarr A11.1.a).  There were 1,000 copies, published in December, 1839, followed by a second printing of 1,000 copies in April, 1840.  Association copy:  "James S. Blackie to Alex. Mackay.  Edinburgh 1867".  James Stewart Blackie was elected to the Greek Chair at Edinburgh University in 1852.  He published verse, prose, and translations, including Homer and Goethe.  His translation of Faust (1834) was praised by Carlyle.  In 1867-8 he debated, in print, Chartist politician Ernest Charles Jones, who was, by this time, continuing to beat a long dead horse.  Alexander Mackay may have been one of Blackie's students.  Some wear.  Light damp-stain to front board, and a private library sticker there.  A Very Good copy.    $250

 

Blackie, John Stuart.   Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece, With Other Poems.  Edinburgh:  Sutherland and Knox;  London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1857.  First edition (NCBEL).  Original blue cloth, decorated in gilt and blind, lettered in gilt.  Blackie was professor of Greek at Edinburgh University.  Gift inscription on the half-title dated in the year of publication.  Somewhat worn and rubbed but a Good, sound copy.    $100

 

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