Author: RODGER, ALEXANDER; FORD, ROBERT (ED)
Title: Poems and Songs : Humourous, Serious, and Satirical SIGNED
Description: Paisley, Scotland, Alexander Gardner. 1897, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Alexander Rodger (1784-1846) the "Radical Poet." The first of several collections of poems by Rodger was published in 1821. His poems, in the Scots dialect, combined biting political satire with snarky humour. Rodger was also editor for many years of the Reformers' Gazette. Edited with an introduction by Robert Ford. Signed by Ford with an inscription dated Glasgow 1897. CONDITION Red buckram cloth with bright gilt spine title, portrait frontis with tissue guard, Pp xxviii 180. Pages are untrimmed , pencil note authors age dates below title, internally bright with paste browned eps. Good/No Jacket. Signed.

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