BOG-MYRTLE AND PEAT: TALES CHIEFLY OF GALLOWAY GATHERED FROM THE YEARS 1889 TO 1895

by Crockett

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1895. Octavo, title page printed in orange and black, original green cloth stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. A collection of idyllic rustic tales and sketches 'in praise of Galloway.' - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 162. The book opens and closes with ballads by Andrew Lang. Just a bit of patchy fading to front panel, hint of browning to spine, endpapers

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