Pictures in Prose and Verse
Title: Pictures in Prose and Verse or Personal Recollections of The Late Janet Hamilton, Langloan together with several hitherto unpublished Poetic pieces
Author: John Young
Publisher: George Gallie, Glasgow
Date: 1877
Hardback - 1st Edition. vii, 176pp
Additional Product Information
John Young was born into the agricultural class in Milton of Campsie in what was then Stirlingshire in 1825. His parents then moved to the north-west corner of Glasgow. He worked at several trades - blacksmith and boiler-maker. However after some personal disasters he ended up in the poor house from where he decided to self-educate himself and to write poetry his first book "Lays from the poorhouse" being published in 1860.
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A very well preserved copy of this first edition with all around gilt edged paper and bright and clean pages throughout.
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