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Janet Hamilton - Poems, Essays and Sketches: Comprising the Principal Pieces from Her Complete Works

Title: Poems, Essays and Sketches: Comprising the Principal Pieces from Her Complete Works
Description: Glasgow, James Maclehouse, 1880. Cloth. A lovely and scarce Memorial Edition of the major works of Scottish poet Janet Hamilton. The scarce Memorial Edition of nineteenth century Scottish poet Janet Hamilton's 1870 work 'Poems, Essays, and Sketches', published following her death.Within this volume are many of her poems, alongside essays on social and moral topics, sketches of village life and character, and 'Temperance Essays&apos.With a prefatory note and lengthy biographical introduction from her son, James Hamilton, who following her early blindness served write down her dictations of her works.With a frontispiece portrait of Hamilton, and facsimile plate of her handwriting.With the former owner's bookplate of Colin Currie to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards clean and bright. Bumping to spine head and tail. Former owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Scottish Literature Scottish Poetry James Hamilton Scottish Poetry Not Stated

Price: GBP 98.00 = appr. US$ 139.94 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 788F26

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