An edinburgh eleven. Pencil Portraits from College Life.
London.
Office of the"British Weekly", 1889.
First edition.
12mo.
115pp, [5]. With a half-title and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Unopened in original publisher's tan cloth. Housed in modern black morocco-backed blue cloth slipcase. A trifle marked, spine slightly dulled, else a clean and crisp copy.
The first edition of a collection of biographical sketches by Scottish novelist J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), recounting his university days at Edinburgh, where he studied literature and wrote drama reviews for the Edinburgh Evening Courant. Barrie composes 'pencil portraits' of eleven professors, acquaintances, and public figures, among them Robert Louis Stevenson and Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, at whom Barrie 'flung a clod of earth'. After achieving literary fame, particularly for the creation of Peter Pan, Barrie later returned to serve as Chancellor of the University from 1930 to 1937.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 32205