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[Scotland]: Printed and Published for Subscribers at Frog Terrace, 1856. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], 114, [2] + frontispiece, engraved title-page and 7 plates. Original green cloth, boards blocked with a blind frame, front board lettered in gilt. Lightly toned and a little spotted. Binding a little shaken, spine slightly cocked and discoloured, extremities bumped. Indistinct ownership inscription to flyleaf, binder’s ticket of Ferguson of Glasgow to rear pastedown. A scarce, pseudonymous Dumbarton social satire, its roots in a series of columns in the Dumbarton Chronicle, which was inspired by (and is sometimes mistaken for) a contemporary Glaswegian work of the same title by John Smith. Both of them satirise town council politics of the time, with cryptic character names and anonymous authors. This Chronicles of Gotham is presented in mock-biblical form and language, with numbered verses, and apocrypha to the rear. Library Hub records 2 copies, NLS, and Glasgow, the latter of which…
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Ye Chronicles of Gotham, Being a fictitious narrative of a Pilgrimage through the Land of Gotham, with an Account of the local wars which occurred there. With Illustrations.
by 'Tallymud' [Alexander Babtie]
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The Year of the Whale.
by Brown, George Mackay
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London: Chatto and Windus [and] The Hogarth Press, 1965. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 48. Phoenix device in red to title-page. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, phoenix blocked in gilt to front board, dustjacket printed in emerald green. Dustjacket a little toned and marked. George Mackay Brown’s fifth book and the first to be published as part of The Phoenix Living Poets series with Enid Marx’s striking jacket design. She was also known for her design of the textiles for London buses and the Underground.
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