| Description Of Item | Three colour profiles of Dr Robert Knox, and a colour illustration of Dr Knox dissecting a body while students watch.
Text reads ‘Dedicated without permission to a preeminent nocturnal luminary at present under partial observation. Three phases taken from repeated, accurate observations.’
‘…Nox astra, caput tristi circumvolat umbra.’ – Virgil
“…Night, with sable shades, involves his head.’ – Dryden.
‘Dedicated without permission, to a most distinguished, finishing lecturer;- close of an obnoxious session.’
‘That business/grapples you to the heart, and love of us.’ – Macbeth
‘Nox, soumni genetrix.’
‘Never subject long’d to be a King/As I do long, and wish to have a subject’ – Shak:
‘The profits, to be given to the relatives of the late most innocent; inoffensive, well known, and well liked ‘Daft Jamie’’.
Relates to William Burke and William Hare.
No I and no II, RH Nimmo’s Lithog Edin.
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