Hugh Miller. Tales and Sketches, Scottish History and Remembrance

Miller, Hugh. Tales and Sketches; Edited, with a Preface, by Mrs. Miller. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1871. Fifth Edition. [11573] Terracotta publishers' cloth, bordered in black, gilt spine titles & vignette on front board, slight edge-wear, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. viii, 487 clean pp. Very good. Hardcover. A series of essays written before Miller became famous for his geological studies. "The greater number of these Tales were composed literally over the midnight lamp, after returning late in the evening from a long day's work over the ledger and the balance-sheet." - preface.  Included here are Recollections of Ferguson; Recollections of Burns; The Salmon-Fisher of Udoll; The Widow of Dunskaith; The Lykewake; Bill Whyte; The Young Surgeon; George Ross, the Scotch Agent; M'Culloch the Mechanician; and The Scotch Merchant of the Eighteenth Century. Hugh Miller (1802-1856), Scottish naturalist, geologist, Free Churchman, and editor. “Miller was especially concerned to uphold by scien