ABBAY, RICHARD. - The Castle of Knaresburgh and The White Mare of Whitestonecliff.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1887. 1st edition. The Castle of Knaresburgh: A Tale in Verse of the Civil War in Yorkshire, 1644 and The White Mare of Whitestonecliff: A Yorkshire Legend of the Fifteenth Century. Pp.xiv/337/48(publisher's catalogues), folding map (Prince Rupert's March to the Relief of York), gift inscription "The Rev. Charles Shipsby from the Author" to inner front endpaper, a few minor spots. Red cloth, gilt title to front and spine, spine rubbed and dulled, bumps to corner tips. Good.** "The Reverend Canon Richard Abbay was a man of exceptional gifts - an astronomer and scientist, a pioneer of the cooperative farming movement, an enlightened parish priest and a poet of some merit." (The Times (London, England) 7th July 1927).

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