Poems on Several Occasions, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

GERROND (John).

Poems on Several Occasions, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

VERSE WRITTEN IN AMERICA

First Edition. Small 8vo. viii, 135, [1] pp., lacking the portrait frontispiece of the author. Stained and dusty throughout. Contemporary green calf-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt (a little rubbed at the edges).

Glasgow: for Chapman and Lang, 1802.

£250.00

Very Rare. OCLC records only a single copy at the National Library of Scotland (which has the frontispiece).

First and only edition of Gerrond’s first collection, published after his five-year emigration to east coast America where he travelled from Philadelphia to Halifax (1793-96). An ‘Epistle to Robert Burns’ was composed in Pennsylvania, and an ‘Advertisement’ for employment as a handyman in Hartford, Connecticut.

Provenance: Modern book label of J. O. Edwards.

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Poems on Several Occasions, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

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