Author: James Grahame
Title: The Sabbath and Other Poems
Description: Edinburgh, David Brown, 1824. Fine Binding. A beautiful pocket-sized edition of James Grahame's poem The Sabbath A charming little book containing James Grahame's most celebrated poem 'The Sabbath', alongside a collection of some of his shorter works. Grahame (1765-1811) was a Scottish poet and philanthropist, writing a joint volume of poetry alongside James Montgomery and Elizabeth Bengor about the abolition of slavery in 1809. 'The Sabbath' is a wonderfully descriptive poem in blank verse, uniting the Scottish countryside and religious devotion in keeping with Grahame's Anglicanism. This edition is in a full calf binding, with gilt spines and borders. In a full calf binding. Externally lovely, minor shelfwear to the spine. Internally firmly bound, pages bright and clean, 2cm tear to page 41 and 43. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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