Leaflets: or, Thoughts in Verse.

(Scottish poetry.) J.C.H.

Leaflets: or, Thoughts in Verse.

Description: FIRST EDITION, headpieces and tail-pieces, the odd small spot or handling mark to border, but mostly very clean, pp. 84, 4to, original brown cloth, border to backstrip and upper board and central decoration to the latter stamped in black, upper board lettered in gilt, a touch of wear at corners, a few spots to edges, attractive patterned endpapers, very good

Publication Details: Haddington: Printed by Neill & Son, 1880

Notes: A scarce book, NLS and Bodley only on LibraryHub. The author was Jessie Cunningham Howden (née Mylne), wife of Haddington doctor Thomas Howden - they occupied the same house in the town as had Jane Welsh Carlyle in her childhood, as the daughter of Howden's predecessor, Dr John Welsh. The same printer had undertaken her earlier volume, 'Some Autumn Leaves', two years earlier.There is a small section of 'Humorous Pieces', including the plaintive 'Sung in Scotland by an English Exile', and the volume closes with translations from German, but the verse is, in the main, religious in character -...moreA scarce book, NLS and Bodley only on LibraryHub. The author was Jessie Cunningham Howden (née Mylne), wife of Haddington doctor Thomas Howden - they occupied the same house in the town as had Jane Welsh Carlyle in her childhood, as the daughter of Howden's predecessor, Dr John Welsh. The same printer had undertaken her earlier volume, 'Some Autumn Leaves', two years earlier.There is a small section of 'Humorous Pieces', including the plaintive 'Sung in Scotland by an English Exile', and the volume closes with translations from German, but the verse is, in the main, religious in character - an 'Acrostic' spells out the word 'Sobriety'. HIDE