The Minstrel; With Thirty-three Designs By Birket Foster, Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel

London: George Routledge & Co, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Navy decorated blue cloth with elaborate gilt gilt cover border panels and center gilt lettered title with beveled edges. Aeg. Near fine. 91 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Lovely gift book with contents clean and very fresh. Small book label of Bone & Son, 76 Fleet St. London. James Beattie was a Scottish philosopher and poet who spent his entire academic career as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at Marischal College in Aberdeen. Rubbing to backstrip head and foot.