Amusements of Leisure Hours: Or Poetical Pieces, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
by Skinner, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Printed by John Moir... and sold by Stuart Cheyne, 1809. 12mo, pp. 144. Original drab boards, printed paper label to spine. Some browning and spotting, a few gatherings opened a little carelessly. Rebacked with brown buckram, portions of original backstrip preserved. A posthumous collection including ‘Tullochgorum’, which Burns ‘declared “the best Scotch song ever Scotland saw” (Walker, 149)’ (ODNB).
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Details
- Bookseller
- McNaughtan's Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2027
- Title
- Amusements of Leisure Hours: Or Poetical Pieces, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
- Author
- Skinner, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by John Moir... and sold by Stuart Cheyne
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1809
- Keywords
- Literature Scottish Poetry
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McNaughtan's Bookshop
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Edinburgh, Midlothian
About McNaughtan's Bookshop
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...