Broken Lights. Poems and Reminiscences of the Late Basil Ramsay Anderson Edited by Jessie M. E. Saxby, with Glossary of Shetland Terms by Gilbert Goudie.
Broken Lights. Poems and Reminiscences of the Late Basil Ramsay Anderson Edited by Jessie M. E. Saxby, with Glossary of Shetland Terms by Gilbert Goudie.

Broken Lights. Poems and Reminiscences of the Late Basil Ramsay Anderson Edited by Jessie M. E. Saxby, with Glossary of Shetland Terms by Gilbert Goudie.

  • Anderson, Basil Ramsay
  • Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark 1888

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FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xxxvi, 128 + tissue-guarded frontispiece. Original teal cloth, front board lettered in gilt and blocked in gilt and black, spine lettered in gilt. Just a touch of spotting. Rear board a little marked, a little rubbed to edges. Modern ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, inkstamp monograph of C.D.L. to title-page.

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A collected works and memorial volume for the young Shetland poet Basil R. Anderson (1861-1888), compiled and edited by his friend and fellow-islander Jessie Saxby. Some of the poems are in Shetlandic dialect. Library Hub records 6 copies, 4 of which are north of the border.

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