[Selections from the correspondence of the late Macvey Napier, Esq. /
Napier, Macvey,1776-1847.
Napier, Macvey,-1893.
[London : s.n.,
1876?]
"Selections from the correspondence of the late Macvey Napier, Esq." was first printed for private circulation in 1877 by his son Macvey Napier ( a second printing for general circulation appeared in 1879). This is an extant proof copy of an earlier printing of part of this correspondence. With the proof copy is a pencil note on the front free endpaper by the Edinburgh printer/publisher David Douglas explaining that in 1875 Macvey Napier (jnr.) decided to print privately 100 copies of this collection of letters, but that when Douglas had printed as far as page 112, Sir Charles Trevelyan obtained an interdict from the Court of Session preventing publication.
Napier, Macvey, 1776-1847
England London.