Mr. Zacharie Boyd; Gabriel Neil [ed.] - Four Poems from "Zion&Apos;S Flowers;" or, "Christian Poems for Spiritual Edification

Glasgow , George Richardson , 1855. First edition. Cloth. An extract of poems from 'Zion's Flowers', one of the many manuscripts left by Zacharie Boyd at Glasgow University Library.  The first edition, limited to four hundred copies. In a pleasing full red cloth rebind. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page and two facsimiles. Collated, complete. Zacharie Boyd was a Scottish minister, university administrator and prolific writer of sermons, scriptural versifications and other devotional works. This volume contains four poems from 'Zion's Flowers', one of the many manuscripts generously left to the Glasgow University Library by Boyd. The poems versify nineteen biblical narratives from the Old Testament, such as Pharoah's Tyrannie and Death, David and Goliath and Destruction of Sodom.With an introduction containing some notices of his life and writings by Gabriel Neil. Rebound in a full red cloth. Externally, very smart, with minor shelf wear and a few faint marks to the boards. Slight fading to the spine. Small ex libris plate of one J. L. Weir to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound, with the first page of the Appendix detached but present. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .