ST. JUDE'S. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1907. Octavo, 296 pp., eleven inserted plates with half-tone illustrations by Harold Copping, original bevel-edged terra cotta cloth stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A collection of Watson's tremendously popular stories of Scottish life. "In his day Watson had a large following both in Britain and abroad. Both Queen Victoria and W. E. Gladstone were admirers of his publications. Yet the great sentimentality of his fiction definitely places him in the Kailyard school. His chief merit was his ability to record rural dialects with reasonable competence, but he lacked skill in connecting sketches to form a unified work." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, p. 258. Published in similar binding style to the Hodder & Stoughton editions in which most of Maclaren's work first appeared. Just a bit of rubbing to cloth, mainly spine ends and corner tips, some foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves, a very good copy. (#134397).
Price: $45.00
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