Author: James Hogg
Title: Winter Evening Tales, Collected Among the Cottages of the South of Scotland
Description: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1821 . Leather. The very scarce revised two volume second edition of James Hogg's collection of short stories, sketches and poems. First published the year prior, 1,000 copies of this second edition were produced due to the positive sales of the first edition. The text of the first volume was revised for this edition.'Winter Evening Tales' is a collection of short stories, sketches and poems, all of which are set in the south of Scotland. They are rural and traditional in nature, and intended by the author to be the kind of stories that would be told around cottage fires during dark evenings in the Scottish winter.The stories in this work include 'The Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee', 'A Peasant's Funeral', 'Story of Two Highlanders', 'The Bridal of Polmood', 'The Shepherd's Calendar', and more.The work of Scottish poet, novelist and essayist James Hogg, best known for his novel 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner', and his long poem 'The Queen's Wake&apos. In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards, and gilt detailing to spines. Rubbing to joints and board perimeters, with small losses to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, with spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: James Hogg The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner scottish literature The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner None
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Title: Winter Evening Tales, Collected Among the Cottages of the South of Scotland
Description: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1821 . Leather. The very scarce revised two volume second edition of James Hogg's collection of short stories, sketches and poems. First published the year prior, 1,000 copies of this second edition were produced due to the positive sales of the first edition. The text of the first volume was revised for this edition.'Winter Evening Tales' is a collection of short stories, sketches and poems, all of which are set in the south of Scotland. They are rural and traditional in nature, and intended by the author to be the kind of stories that would be told around cottage fires during dark evenings in the Scottish winter.The stories in this work include 'The Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee', 'A Peasant's Funeral', 'Story of Two Highlanders', 'The Bridal of Polmood', 'The Shepherd's Calendar', and more.The work of Scottish poet, novelist and essayist James Hogg, best known for his novel 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner', and his long poem 'The Queen's Wake&apos. In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards, and gilt detailing to spines. Rubbing to joints and board perimeters, with small losses to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, with spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: James Hogg The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner scottish literature The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner None
Price: GBP 675.00 = appr. US$ 963.89 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 858F19
- Book number: 858F19
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