LANCASHIRE DIALECT (4 resultados)

Condición: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original dove grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in black and brick red to the spine and front cover. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. First book in the series. Contains frontispiece, 280 pp. Foxing to the end papers, spine sun faded and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. LANCASHIRE.

1p, on the reverse of an advertisement, with engraving, for his 1886 book 'Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life', cut down to 16 x 13 cm. On aged paper, with horizontal cut repaired with archival tape. Reads: '[Sent?] me very well. | The poems I propose reading will be | "The New Shirt." | and "The Gravelgate Flood." | You can take your choice betwixt "The New Shirt," and "The Bradley's Visit to Thisle Ho." Please send me a programme as soon as printed.'.

11 parts, 8vo., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean run. Sold from an institution with its annotations on front wrappers and cancelled bookplates on front inside wrappers. The run comprises nos. 4 (Dec 1954), 5 (Dec 1955), 6 (Dec 1956), 7 (Jan 1958), 8 (Jan 1959), 9 (Jan 1960), 10 (Jan 1961), 11 (Jan 1962), 13 (Jan 1964), 14 (Jan 1965) and 15 (Jan 1966). Runs of this publication are to say the least uncommon.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Both in fair condition, worn and aged. The first item with one fold. Both signed 'Edwin Waugh' and addressed to 'Mr. J. T. Baron'. ONE (14 February 1889): 2pp, 12mo. On the rectos of a bifolium. He would have answered Baron sooner, had he not been 'tossing to and fro a good deal lately'. He thanks him 'very heartily for the kind feeling expressed in your lines addressed to me on the 73rd [the 3 underlined three times] anniversary of my birth, in the Blackburn Times'. He finds it 'a cheering thing', at his time of life, 'to feel that I have the friendship and good wishes of so many of the people of my native county'. He ends by reiterating his thanks for his 'personal kindness, and friendly tribute'. TWO (24 February 1889): 1p, 12mo. He read Baron's 'lines on "Art and Song" with great pleasure', and thinks he 'ought to do more of the same kind'. He ends by stating that he is enclosing a copy of his 'latest photograph' (not present).