Lot 2759
Thomson, James. The Poetical Works, 2 volumes, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green labels, joints cracking, slight wear to upper covers, Subscriber's copy, that of Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly, with his armorial bookplates and autograph signature 'Thomas Knox 1787', folio, Glasgow: Andrew Foulis, 1784
Thomas Knox (1754-1840) was an Irish peer and politician. The subscriber's list includes many notables associated with the Scottish enlightenment and English intelligentsia, including Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Henry Dundas, Henry Erskine and George Jardine.
