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Nantucket, Mass.: Nantucket Historical Association, 1970 27pp. Stapled booklet.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1819 6th edition. Hard cover, 8vo., in full blue calf , the boards banded in gilt and blind with rolled neoclassical ornament, and the image of a finely detailed Celtic harp in blind to center of both boards. All edges gilt, board edges and turn-ins with gilt decoration, marbled endpapers, the spine with four raised bands, gilt title and decoration of Celtic harps to remaining compartments. Silk ribbon bookmark. 384 pp. Printed at Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, Printers.**CONDITION: Very Good Plus, with rubbing to front exterior joint in particular. Very light rubbing at corners showing through to boards. Gift Inscription in old ink to the ffep. dated Cranston Hill [Glasgow] 1831. Hinges in good order. Internally, the book is about Fine. **Much has been made of the rags-to-literary-fame of Scottish Romantic poet, journalist, critic and author James Hogg (1770-1835), nicknamed "The Ettrick Shepherd," because of his remarkable transformation from illiterate teenage sheep… Read More