AFTERWARDS AND OTHER STORIES

by John Watson, Ian Maclaren.

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. Octavo, original pictorial olive-green cloth stamped in black and gold. First U.S. edition. One of Watson's collections of his tremendously popular Drumtochty stories, sketches nostalgically reflective of an idealized rural Scottish life. In his day Watson had a large following both in Britain and abroad. Both Queen Victoria and W. E. Gladstone were admirers of his publications.

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