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Fenton, Andrew L (editor)
Forfar Poets
Publisher: Heath & Co, Forfar;
Date of Publication: 1879
Stock Code: 4596
FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo. iv, 168 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Original pebbled green cloth by Wlilliam Kidd of Dundee with ruling in gilt and black to upper board and in blind to lower; gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges sprinkled black; bottle green endpapers. Engraved head and tail pieces throughout. Cover cloth lightly surface scuffed and toned to edge, with bruised corners. A liitle very minor scattred foxing & fingermarking otherwise a very clean copy. Binder’s ticket to rear pastedown; no annotation or inscriptions. Verse by poets James Ross, David Shaw, William Hunter,George Menzies,, William Smith, Thomas Ormond and George T S Farquhar, gathered together by a local pillar of the Forfar community and councillor. £50.00