Waugh's Complete Works Large Paper Edition | Collected Works of Edwin Waugh | Volume I: Lancashire Sketches; Volume II: Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine; Volume III: Besom Ben Stories; Volume IV: Tufts of Heather (Part I); Volume V: Tufts of Heather (Part II); Volume VI: Irish Sketches; Volume VII: Rambles in the Lake Country; Volume VIII: The Chimney Corner; Volume IX: The Limping Pilgrim, on His Wanderings; Volume X: Poems and Songs (First Series); Volume XI: Poems and Songs (Second Series) | In Eleven Volumes Complete (Signed)

Waugh, Edwin (1817-1890) was an English poet, he was possessed of considerable literary gift, and has been called 'the Lancashire Burns.' [Frank Reddaway (1854-1943) was an industrialist with interests in pre-revolutionary Russia who pursued claims against the Soviet government for many years].

Editore: Published by John Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, John Dalton Street, Manchester -1889. 1881-1889., 1881

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Large paper edition uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original three quarter burgundy leather, the spine divided into six panels with gilt lettering in the second and fourth, tooling to the others, gilt lines and decorations across, top edges gilt, cockerell burgundy and gilt marble paper sides and end papers. 4to. 10'' x 8''. Tissue guarded frontispiece to each volume, red and black printed title pages, list of subscribers. Rambles in the 'Lake Country and Other Travel Sketches' with a fold-out map, and fifteen plates, both volumes of 'Poems and Songs' have full-page tissue-guarded plates, other volumes have text vignettes throughout. Bookplate to each front paste down from the estate of F. Reddaway (of Cheltenham Street, Pendleton, Manchester), manufacturer of machine belting, Indian rubber goods, canvas hose etc. of Manchester and other places, and of Kerr and Jubb, merchants of Halifax, Yorkshire, small vignette and Latin text 'per bonum malumque fortitudine' (through good and evil by strength). 9 of the 11 volumes SIGNED by the author to the half-title pages 'From Edwin Waugh to his friend J. D. Watson', some volumes have the author's address in the same hand, New Brighton, Cheshire. Just a little rubbing to the high points of the covers, contents in Fine condition. Photographic newspaper clipping of Edwin Waugh loosely inserted. Heavy volume set weighing 22 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.

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• Titolo: Waugh's Complete Works Large Paper Edition | Collected Works of Edwin Waugh | Volume I: Lancashire Sketches; Volume II: Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine; Volume III: Besom Ben Stories; Volume IV: Tufts of Heather (Part I); Volume V: Tufts of Heather (Part II); Volume VI: Irish Sketches; Volume VII: Rambles in the Lake Country; Volume VIII: The Chimney Corner; Volume IX: The Limping Pilgrim, on His Wanderings; Volume X: Poems and Songs (First Series); Volume XI: Poems and Songs (Second ...
• Editore: Published by John Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, John Dalton Street, Manchester -1889. 1881-1889.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1881
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: buono
• Firmato: Autografato dall'autore