Memoirs of the life and writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames
Subtitle: one of the senators of the College of justice, and one of the lords commissioners of justiciary in Scotland : containing sketches of the progress of literature and general improvement in Scotland during the greater part of the eighteenth century : in two volumes.
Contributors: Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782.; Beugo, John, 1759-1841, engraver.; Toner, Joseph M. 1825-1896, former owner.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: William Creech; T. Cadell and W. Davis
Published: 1807
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Subjects: Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Correspondence; Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782 -- Correspondence; Lawyers -- Scotland -- Biography; Scotland -- History -- 18th century
Genres: Correspondence.; Biography.
Notes: Preface signed: Alex. Fraser Tytler.
Contains numerous references to Benjamin Franklin and some of his letters to Lord Kames.
Vol. 1 contains plate with portrait of Kames. Vol. 2 contains 2 plates of facsimiles. Plate with portrait signed: D. Martin, pinxt., I. Beugo, sculpt.
Each volume contains appendix with half titles.
Vol. 1: xvi, 329, [1], 105, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: xi, [1], 253, [1], 163, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates.
Errata: v. 1: p. 105; v. 2: [1] p. at end.
Includes index.
LC copy bound in 1 v.
With: Supplement to the memoirs of the life and writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames / Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee. Edinburgh : William Creech, 1809. Bound together subsequent to publication.
LC copy has bookplate: Toner Collection.