Description
FIRST EDITION, 16mo, pp. 54. Original plain wrappers, integral tissue-jacket printed in black and red, top edge red, others untrimmed. A little minor spotting. Tissue-jacket slightly toned and spotted.
The Tinker’s Road and other verses.
- London & Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, Limited 1924
£75
Notes
The first edition of the scarce second book of verse by Marion Angus (1865-1946), a significant figure in the Scottish literary renaissance. She did not begin writing poetry until late in life, with her first book, The Lilt (1922), appearing around the same time as the first published writings of Hugh MacDiarmid, three decades her junior, and though lesser-known today her use of Scots was also important in the transition from the legacy of Burns to modern Scottish literary language.
