Memoir of George Wilson

Edinburgh / London: Edmonston and Douglas / Macmillan and Co, 1860. Very Good-. Edinburgh / London: Edmonston and Douglas / Macmillan and Co., 1860. First Edition. Thick octavo (23cm); publisher's dark brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; xii,536pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Boards a bit scuffed, light fraying at spine ends and corners, hinges starting to crack but holding; Good to Very Good overall. Contemporary ownership signature to front flyleaf of an Annie Dobie and 20th century ownership ex libris of chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown.

Biography of the late Scottish chemist George Wilson (1818-1859) composed by his sister.