Description
12mo, pp. 256. Original blue cloth lettered and blocked in pale green. A little shaken, a touch rubbed to edges, some marks to boards. Modern ownership inscription to flyleaf, in ownership stamps to flyleaf and margin of p. 49.
Euphie Lyn or, The Fishers of Old Inweerie.
- Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier 1893
£150
Notes
An oddity of publication - an early edition of a Fife-set novel by Scottish writer Jessie Kerr Lawson (1838-1917), who emigrated to Canada in the 1860s, in a publisher's binding crediting it instead to Shetlandic novelist Jessie M.E. Saxby (1842-1940). It was first published in 1893, this undated printing in the publisher's 'Butterfly Library' series is likely a slightly later reprint which has escaped the eye of posterity and the attention of cataloguers. Library Hub records 5 copies, all dated 1893, with Oxford designating theirs as number 6 in the 'Pocket Library', a series which at least seems to have credited the authors correctly on its bindings.
