Author: Cockburn, Lord [ Henry Thomas ]
Title: Life Of Lord Jeffrey With A Selection From His Correspondence In Two Volumes [complete]
Description: Adam & Charles Black, North Bridge Edinburgh, 1852, 1st edition. Original cloth, G. 2 volumes, vi+435pp, [tp]+viii+467pp, b/w frontis to volume I, publishers adverts to the endpapers, tipped in at the pastedown gutter of volume I is a 12pp publishers catalogue dated March 1852, heavy offsetting to the title from the frontis despite the tissue guard being in place, spines rather faded & worn at the head & with two small splits to the cloth at the hinge, corners bumped & worn, but a nice set none the less. Binders ticket of John Gray Edinburgh to the pastedown. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ The life of Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey [ 1773 - 1850 ] the Scottish judge & literary critic who spent some 26 years editing the influential 'Edinburgh Review'. The independent nature of the way in which the Review was written meant it was a leading organ of Whig opinion. The first volume contains the Life by life long friend of Jeffrey & frequent contributor to the Review, Henry Thomas Cockburn and the second volume extracts from Jeffrey's correspondence.

Keywords: biography, literature, literary criticism, law, scottish law, legal history, edinburgh