Quarto. viii, 203pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Modern half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, olive-green cloth boards. A trifle marked, spine sunned. Pencilled ownership inscription of William Walker to recto of front blank fly-leaf, with his occasional pencilled annotations.

The sole edition of a biography of English engraver Abraham Raimbach (1776-1843), to which is subjoined a memoir of artist Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841); with whom Raimbach collaborated to great acclaim and financial success.

Provenance: William Walker (1791-1867), Scottish engraver.