Volume 1

A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen / edited by Robert Chambers.

Date:
1854-1855
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Credit: A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen / edited by Robert Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 sympathies not only of natives of Scotland, who may naturally be expected to feel deeply interested in the history of those of their countiymen whose names have added a fresh lustre to their native land; but also of all who love and admire the good and great in whatever clime and m whatever land they may have been born; and at the same time it can- not fail to be eminently useful by setting before aspiring minds brilliant examples of what has been already accomplished. The Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen was edited by Bobert Chambers, one of the editors of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, &c., whose writings are so well and favourably known, and was highly appreciated on its first publication; but many years having elapsed since that time, many eminent persons have been gathered to their fathers in the interval, rendering the Work now, to a certain extent, incomplete. In the New Edition now issued, the original Work has been carefully revised, some Biographies extended, others rendered more succinct and precise; and, in addition, a supplementary volume has been added, including notices of eminent individuals who have died since the Work was first published, together with such names as had then been omitted. The Scottish Biographical Dictionary will thus continue to be what it has ever been, the most complete and interesting record of the Lives of Eminent Scotsmen that has issued from the Press. CONDITIONS. The revised portion, forming what constituted the original Work, and the Supplementary Volume, will be completed in Nine Divisions, elegantly bound in cloth, at 6s. 6d. each. The whole will be illustrated with Eighty authentic Portraits, engraved on Steel, in the first style of art; and Five Engraved Titles, giving viewe of the principal Seats of learning in Scotland. BLACIvIE AND SON: GLASGOW, EDINBURGH, LONDON, AND NEW YORK.
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