This Is the Book of the Lamentations of the Poet Macgonagall: Portraying in His Own Unapproachable Style His Birth and Parentage, Early Struggles, Miraculous and Hairbreadth Escapes, with a Graphic and Characteristic Account Setting Forth Now, by his Inspired Genius and Indomitable Pluck, he Passed from Penury and Persecution through a Knighthood into an Immortality of Fame

Language: English

Published by John Durham & Son, Dundee, 1905

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1905. First edition. [ii], 140pp. and a photographic portrait of McGonagall. William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902) was a Scottish poet. He gained notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work. This book is fictional autobiography of McGonagall, written in his own style. The book is bound in the original thin card covers with titling and an illustration on the front cover. The book is in good condition with expected signs of age and use. The covers have shelf wear with soiling and some staining and pieces are missing from the top front corner and bottom front and rear corners. The original spine has been replaced by a previous with a strip of brown paper that also covers about 1/2" of the front and rear covers. There a nicks and small pieces missing from the edge of the covers and a tear of about 1/2" on the bottom edge of the rear cover. The contents are secure and clean apart form a few small marks and moderate foxing to the endpapers and first and last few pages, including the title-page. There is light curling to the corners of the pages and some of them are dog-eared. There is no inscription. The book is in an old home-made but removeable plastic cover.

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Title
This Is the Book of the Lamentations of the Poet Macgonagall: Portraying in His Own Unapproachable Style His Birth and Parentage, Early Struggles, Miraculous and Hairbreadth Escapes, with a Graphic and Characteristic Account Setting Forth Now, by his Inspired Genius and Indomitable Pluck, he Passed from Penury and Persecution through a Knighthood into an Immortality of Fame
Author
Macgonagall/McGonagall, William (in the style of)
Publisher
John Durham & Son, Dundee
Publication year
1905
Condition
Good
Binding
Softcovers
Language
English
Edition
First Edition
Dimensions
7.2" Tall
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Biography, Scottish Poetry/Ballads

Edinburgh Books

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