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1863 JOHN WILSON: NOCTES AMBROSIANAE 5 VOLUME SET / Worthington Place Published: New York Publisher: Worthington Co. Date Published: 1863 Edition: First edition Binding: Hardcover, cloth, gilt titles at spine Condition: Very Good Indexed in Vol. V - 25 page general index John Wilson of Ellerey (18 May 1785 - 3 April 1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.He was professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University (1820-51). Octavo Five Volume Set matched library (similar condition) Pages per volume: 486, 432, 469, 467, 465 Blue cloth bindings, generally sound Some inner spine splits Foxing as visible in the scans Engravings of: John Wilson, James Hogg, Wm. Maginn, and J. G. Lockhart Engravings by famous engravers of the era: J. D. Smillie, Daniel Maclise, and E. Teel In 1822 began the series of Noctes Ambrosianae, after 1825 mostly Wilson's work. These are discussions in the form of convivial table-talk, including wonderfully various digressions of criticism, description and miscellaneous writing. There was much ephemeral, a certain amount purely local, and something occasionally trivial in them. But their dramatic force, their incessant flashes of happy thought and happy expression, their almost incomparable fulness of life, and their magnificent humor give them all but the highest place among genial and recreative literature. "The Ettrick Shepherd," an idealized portrait of James Hogg, one of the talkers, is a most delightful creation. Before this, Wilson had contributed to Blackwood's prose tales and sketches, and novels, some of which were afterwards published separately in Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life (1822), The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay (1823) and The Foresters (1825); later appeared essays on Edmund Spenser, Homer and all sorts of modern subjects and authors. American Philatelic Society dealer member |
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