ST. JUDE'S

by John Watson, Ian Maclaren.

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1907. Octavo, 296 pp., eleven inserted plates with half-tone illustrations by Harold Copping, original bevel-edged terra cotta cloth stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A collection of Watson's tremendously popular stories of 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

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