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Janet Hamilton - Poems and Ballads

Title: Poems and Ballads
Description: Glasgow, James Maclehouse, 1873. Cloth. A charming and very scarce collection of nineteenth century Scottish poet Janet Hamilton's work. The very scarce second edition of Scottish poet Janet Hamilton's work, dedicated 'by the authoress to her brothers the men of the working class&apos. Hamilton was a celebrated and self taught working class poet, who died at the age of 78 having 'never been more than twenty miles from her dwelling', in rural Lanarkshire. 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. Bumping to spine head and tail. Former owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Scottish Poetry Scottish Literature Scotland Scottish Literature None

Price: GBP 90.00 = appr. US$ 128.52 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 788F35

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