Modern Athenians : being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland.
Crombie, Benjamin W.(Benjamin William),1803-1847.
Edinburgh : Published by Hugh Paton, carver & gilder to the Queen, and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Adam Square,
MD.CCC.XLIV [1844].
Anonymous: the portraits were done by Benjamin William Crombie.
With a list of people portrayed on the plates on the leaf following the title page.
"First series" appears in the ornamental border on the front cover and title page. A complete, collected set of 48 plates was published by Hugh Paton in 1851. This set contains only 21 of the 48 plates. It is also accompanied by a press cutting of a Scotsman newspaper article relating to Crombie.
Scotland Edinburgh.