Miller, Hugh. Tales and Sketches; Edited, with a Preface, by Mrs. Miller. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1865.[10516]
Brick red publisher's cloth, spine dull on spine yet the binding is otherwise very good, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 369 clean pp. plus publisher's catalogue. 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 geologist, Free Churchman, and editor. “Miller was especially concerned to uphold by scientific methods the idea of God as Creator at a time when evolutionary views such as those put forward by Robert Chambers in the anonymous Vestiges of Creation were gaining ground.” – Dictionary of Scottish Church History & Theology.
Miller published Testimony of the Rocks as a response to Darwinism.
