£45
8vo, pp. viii, 192, [2, ads], 24 [ads] + frontispiece. Original blue cloth, boards blocked in blind, front board lettered centrally in gilt around gilt thistle device, spine divided by double blind rules and lettered direct in gilt, other compartments tooled centrally in blind. Spine slightly discoloured, front joint a little nibbled.
The second, expanded edition of Thom's only book of poetry, first published by subscription the previous year. 'Mostly he wrote in the Scottish dialect rather than standard nineteenth-century English, producing both lyrics and protest verse about the sufferings of the poor. He was undoubtedly a poet of greater talent than most of his early and mid-Victorian working-class colleagues' (ODNB).
