AB-O'TH-YATE SKETCHES AND OTHER SHORT STORIES ... Edited

by James Dronsfield by Be Brierley, Ab-o'th'-Yate.

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Oldham: W. E. Clegg, 1896. Octavo, three volumes, original pictorial brown cloth, spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. Posthumously published collection of sketches and stories in memory of the much-loved Lancashire writer born at Failsworth, near Manchester in 1825. The son of a hand loom weaver, Brierley went to work in the silk mills at the age of six. Village Sunday and night

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