FIRST EDITION. Large 12mo (in 6s), 172 x 105 mms., pp. viii, 178, including half-title and list of subscribers, uncut, original boards, paper label on spine, autograph "David Barbour/ Manchester/ 1839" on recto of front free end-paper; lacks the front (top) board. Among the poems that Hetrick (1769 - 1849) includes are "Elegy on the Death of Burns" and "Prologue to the Gentle Shepherd." Hetrick was brought up as a weaver but later became a blacksmith. In the preface, he describes himself as "an untutored country mechanic." The collection was re-issued in 1898. Johnson: Provincial Poetry 1789 - 1839 (1992), 431. Copac locates copies in NLS, Edinburgh, Glasgow; WorldCat adds BL; University of California, Davis, University of South Carolina, Yale University, Columbia University, Harvard University; Waseda Univrsity Library. I have not had the binding restored just in case none of the extant copies is in boards, so at least there is some idea what the volume looked like on its first appearance.

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Poems & Songs by Robert Hetrick, Dalmellington.

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Ayr: Printed for the Author

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1826

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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