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Hard cover , Miniature ( 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches) in blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped in an interesting pattern illustrated with birds, squirrels, and festoons, from the center of which hangs a bird on a perch, with chippendale-style corner accents. The title to the spine in gilt with a broad floral band of decoration resembling hops or perhaps grapes, flanked by a frame of ruled lines with dentilated accent. Cream end papers, tissue-guarded frontispiece engraving titled "Maternal Love" William Van Norden, printer. iii-xviii, 233 pp. plus [3, index], plus [4pp.] publisher's ads : "Works Published in Appleton' Miniature Classical Library." CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Font joint with a small separation at midpoint. Discoloration to rear endpapers. Otherwise, a few areas of light foxing and minor soiling, intermittently. Pages mildly age toned.**Originally published 1827, this is Scottish poet Robert Pollock's (1798-1827) most famous work. Edinburgh publisher John Blackwood would release the ten-book poem in blank verse shortly before the poet's death. He is said to have been inspired by the work of Byron, and was much admired by his Edinburgh contemporary, Prof. John Wilson. A farmer's son, who gave up furniture-making to join the church, Pollock was educated variously at the Univ. of Glasgow and Dunfermline but was considered of too feeble health to continue in that vocation. This work went into many editions being popular at the time. DNB , T.W. Bayne, "Robert Pollock," (1900).
Ref: MINI 9316
$75.00