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Philosophy from 1928 to 1960, after which he served from 1960 to 1980 asprofessor emeritus, teaching at various universities abroad. [… He] is best knownfor his bibliographical and editorial contributions to the study of George Berkeley.[…] Jessop is additionally recognized for his controversial development of anaccount of Berkeley as a common sense realist’ (Dictionary of Twentieth-CenturyBritish Philosophers).The main corpus of Jessop’s papers is preserved at the University of Hull.THE EDINBURGH ENLIGHTENMENT DEPICTED60. KAY, John (artist) [and James PATERSON and [?]James ThomsonCALLENDER]. A Series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the lateJohn Kay ... with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes. [Edited byJames MAIDMENT.] Edinburgh, Hugh Paton, 1837-1838.Two vols, 4to in 2s (261 x 202mm), pp. I: iv, 430, iv, ix, [1]blank; II: [2], ii, 472, iv, iv, xi, [1] blank, [v]-xix, [1] blank; 357engraved and aquatint plates, one folding, including a rebusletter to Sir Lawrence Dundas; some light spotting andoffsetting, 5Q1 in volume I with small marginal tear, 2 plateswith skilful repairs, a few trimmed, but nonetheless a verygood set, in contemporary red half crushed morocco gilt byTout, spines gilt in compartments, lettered directly; engravedarmorial bookplates of Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855) and latenineteenth-century monogram bookplates ‘ALF’ to frontpastedown. £2500First edition of a collection of portraits by the Edinburgh-born artist John Kay(1742-1826) of the Scottish Enlightenment society, including celebrated figures ofthe period such as Lord Kames, William Robertson, Sir Walter Scott, AlexanderFraser Tytler and Adam Smith, here depicted in two etchings which are ‘the onlyauthentic likenesses that exist of the great economist’ (ODNB).