Willie Winkie's Nursery Songs of Scotland.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1859, (entered in 1858); blue cloth boards with stamped design and gilt titles, brown endpapers, 5.25x7.5"; 94 pp. Juvenile hardback.
Mrs. Silsbee has made available verses written for Scottish children a few years previously, trying to retain "the racy terseness so often weakened by a translation." The work of William Miller, Alexander Smart, James Ballantyne, Alexander Rodger, George Donald, Alexander Laing, William Ferguson, and John Crawford.
CONDITION: Good Plus; pencil 1869 owner inscription, large bookplate of a 1928 owner, shiny area on spine, perhaps from his cataloguing label, brighter blue area on top board corner (old repair?) more visible on jpg; wear to corners and especially. spine ends, pages darkening a bit, tight, straight, and clean. Item #17625
Price: $140.00