Legends and recollections of mona, with other poems from a family portfolio
by [ISLAND VERSE]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Guernsey: Printed by H. Brouard, 1849. viii, [2], 112pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting, binder's ticket Weemys & Co. to REP. The sole edition of a Guernsey-printed collection of anonymous devotional, sentimental, and topographical verse, including a poem commemorating the visit of Queen Victoria to the island in 1846, and others containing references to Calf of Man and the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. OCLC and COPAC records copies at six locations (BL, Illinois, LAC, Melbourne, NLW, and Oxford). . First edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ30449
- Title
- Legends and recollections of mona, with other poems from a family portfolio
- Author
- [ISLAND VERSE]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by H. Brouard
- Place of Publication
- Guernsey
- Date Published
- 1849
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Poetry, Verse
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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