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Published by W.J. Widdleton
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound in publisher's original green cloth boards, beveled, with gilt device to front cover, sharp and distinct gilt lettering and illustration to spine, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Spanish and American ballads and songs, then a long section of miscellaneous ballads. vii + 216 pp. Firmilian: a spasmodic tragedy is ix [2], 14-165 pp. in length, is followed by publisher's ads, and is comprised of a single epic poem. William Edmonstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was a Scottish poet and Professor Rhetoric.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. vii, 8-165, [2] p. 20 cm. Half leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Moderate wear to extremities. Front free endpaper coming loose. Occasional soiling.
Published by W. J. Widdleton, New York
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Book
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 216; 165 pages and two leaves of ads at rear. Publisher's green cloth with bevelled boards; gilt to front and spine; brown slate endpapers. Extremities rubbed; no inscriptions; binding sound. Spanish Ballads, American Ballads, Miscellaneous Ballads; and Aytoun's parody of the Spasmodics. No stated date of issue [c. 1875]; verso of Firmilian title page gives an extract from the North British Review for September 1866.