Beschrijving
Field & Tuer, London, 1881, two volumes, 1st edition, spines of both volumes damaged otherwise decent copies, many illustrations, Provenance: bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, who inherited and improved a successful group of retail pharmacies, John Hayhurst & Son, based in Nelson, Lancashire, and became an avid collector of naval history and of eighteenth-century literature in contemporary bindings; ‘Mr. R. J. Hayhurst believes that most pharmacists neglect one of their most valuable assets the tradition and dignity of the pharmacy. His historical sense, indeed, is no narrow one, for his feeling for the past reveals itself also in his hobbies. A collector of books, in a delightful room at his home, white-painted bookshelves stacked high on all the available wall space show to advantage the hand-tooled leather bindings of a collection that has been acquired slowly and with discrimination over the years’ (The Chemist and Druggist, 7 September, 1957).
