Prison amusements, and other trifles: principally written during nine months of confinement in the castle of York.

by Paul Positive by James Montgomery

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: J. Johnson, no. 72, St. Paul’s Church Yard. Price Four Shillings in Boards, 1797. First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, pp. viii, 200; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; a bit of cracking along the front joint, boards somewhat soiled; all else very good, sound and clean. Montgomery 1771-1854 was a Scottish poet and writer of hymns. He was raised in the Moravian Church and theologically

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