A print from a disbound book of Scotland published 1900. Blank on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 8.75" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1900 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
"CHRISTOPHER NORTH'S" EARLY HOME, PAISLEY.
Professor John Wilson, better known as the "Kit North," of Blackwood, was born on May 18, 1785. His father was a wealthy Paisley manufacturer, living at Townhead House, in the High Street, opposite the Museum and Free Library, and shown in the present view. He was educated at Glasgow and Magdalen College, Oxford, and in 1820 became Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh. The terrible force (when he chose) of "Kit North's" prose was matched by the bodily prowess of that muscular Christian John Wilson; and it was not unusual for Edinburgh to see some hulking rascal thrashed in the streets by her Professor, for some brutality that jarred too much on his sense of the fitness of things. He died on April 3, 1854, in the enjoyment of a Civil List pension.