
Price: £30.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Good
Frontispiece portrait of author. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Spine lightly sunned, gift inscription (1895) on front pastedown, good. A collection short prose pieces and (principally) poems. Askham was, like the earlier John Clare, a self-educated working-class poet. He lived and worked (initially as a shoe-maker) in and around Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. This was his last collection of (prose and) verse, published in the year before his death.
Title: Sketches in Prose and Verse with a Portrait and Biographical Sketch of the Author (1893)
Categories: First Editions, Essays, Poetry,
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Northampton/Wellingborough), S. S. Campion (Northampton)/Thos Collings (Wellingborough): 1893
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Type: Book
Seller ID: VN2335