John Gibson Lockhart

First edition. This biography attempts to portray Lockhart as a man who must have lived in his own right, apart from merely being "Scott's Lockhart." He survived Walter Scott by twenty-two years, in which he did not vanish from social or literary life. A beautiful biography of this enigmatic man. Spot on front of jacket. Preliminary pages foxed. xii, 324 pages, with 8 additional plates. cloth, dust jacket.. small 8vo..