Price: £350
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: [1906]
Stock Number: 71701
(Your basket is currently empty)A Selection of Verse written at various intervals in the course of a period of Five Years' Penal Servitude.
Description: FIRST EDITION, printed note from the author tipped to half-title, pp. viii, 74, 12mo original grey wrappers printed in red to front, a few spots, the backstrip sunned, very goodPublication Details: Ilford: By the Author, [1906]
Notes: A scarce book. The printed note tipped to the half-title explains the circumstances of their composition during a five year sentence for forgery committed whilst an Income Tax Claim Examiner. The work is offered, Bonchord humbly submits, not for 'any intrinsic merit' but as a 'rough little human document [...] of the penal establishments of England'; in respect of the latter, it might be noted – indeed a pencilled note at the foot of the letter records the fact for us – that the author was a Scot, more specifically an Orcadian, an extraction referred to most directly in the poems 'The Orc...more
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