The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden
Title: The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden
Author: William Drummond
Publisher: J. Jeffery, London
Date: 1790 (MDCCXC)
Full leather bound - Possible 1st Edition
Additional Product Information
William Drummond (1585-1649)
Drummond has long enjoyed a reputation as Scotland's foremost seventeenth-century poet. He wrote in English, not Scots, and is regarded as playing a major role in the Anglification of Scottish literature.
Condition Notes
This copy is in genrally poor condition with general weakness throughout. The leather binding has suffered considerably with some severe loss and fraying around the edges and at the corners and a complete split of the leather of the front board from the spine.
The poor state of the cover means that inside the binding has some looseness with some loose pages in the front. However the book is intact and the pages generally clean throughout with age-related tanning.
Given the scarcity of the book the price reflects the poor state of the book itself.
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Provenance
This book accries the book plate of Vivian de Sola Pinto (1895-1969).
He was a poet and literary critic and an authority on D. H. Lawrence and was a witness at the Lady Chatterley's Lover trial in 1960. He was also a close fiend of the WWI war poet Siegfried Sassoon.