The Life and Remains of Edward Daniel Clarke, Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Cambridge.
London. Printed for George Cowie and Co., 1824. 8vo., 21.5cm, in 2 volumes, [iv],500 & [ii],486pp., engraved frontis portrait, with a 6 page ‘list of subscriber’, (folded and loosely inserted), in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, wide gilt decorated borders and gilt titles on the spines, there is an ink stain on the bottom fore edge corner of volume one, throughout text but not affecting the print, some wear on the board edges and corners but a very good sound copy attractively bound. Note: the stain is on the edges, not on the page, see illustration. Item #43762
A biography of Clarke by his lifelong friend and travelling companion William Otter (1768-1840), sometime Bishop of Chichester. The biography is the only monograph devoted to Clarke, who travelled widely throughout Europe and Asia, collecting sculpture and manuscripts as well as the geological specimens that were his academic study. It quotes his journals, his letters to his friends, and their recollections and actions after his death. Of note in the biography are the numerous references to Thomas Malthus - Clarke, Malthus, and Otter travelled to Europe together in 1799, where Malthus gathered much material for the substantially revised second edition of his Essay on Population. Malthus subscribed to three copies of the work. Atabey 256.
Price: $450.00