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Hard Cover. 12mo. 64pp. Condition: Very Good with some foxing to pages and dust-soiling to covers. ** Essay on the art of collecting and the reading of books, by the Scottish minister, John Watson (1850-1907), who went by the pen-name of Ian MacLaren. He is perhaps best known for his "Kailyard" short story collection "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush" (1894). Kailyard refers to a kitchen garden, and his stories tell of rural life in Scotland. The Kailyard books were later seen as being a pastiche of real life, but they started a tradition which led the trilogy "A Scots Quair" (1932-1934) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935). Both authors make use of the Scots language and descriptions of farm life in lowland Scotland. A more contemporary author who takes this further is David D. Ogston in his book "White Stone Country: Growing Up in Buchan" (1986).
Ref: ESSY 8390
$35.00