£120
CORRECTED AND EXPANDED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [ii], 16, [2]. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. Wrappers a bit creased and slightly worn. Several corrections in the text (one replacing two entire stanzas), plus the blank page facing the first poem filled with contextual notes on its subject and the blank facing the last poem with an additional poem in manuscript dated 1931, all in the hand of the author.
A rare and privately-printed pamphlet of verse by Mary Ursula Umfreville Vaughan-Lee (née Pickering, 1878-1970), with three substantial additions and several corrections/clarifications undoubtedly by her. Vaughan-Lee had a busy 1915: in February 1915 she married Col. Arthur Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee (1862–1933) and in November their daughter was born; in between she produced this pamphlet of poems. The family certainly spent most of their time at the family estate in Somerset, but evidently had Scottish connections: the author is buried in Kincardine O'Neil in Aberdeenshire, and one of the poems here is set in Carlogie, Angus (with a manuscript addition 'in May 1914' to the title).
The first poem takes as its subject the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth, and the facing blank has here been filled with c.200 words of manuscript about the history and position of the Rock. Other manuscript additions include specifying the breeds of the two title dogs in another poem, and two stanzas are entirely rewritten. The final blank page has an additional poem in manuscript, titled 'A Love Ditty'.
Library Hub lists one copy, in the Bodleian, and OCLC adds no others.
