Description
C.I.W. Verses Written During Recreation Hours by the Late C.I.W. Market Drayton, United Kingdom: Jonh Lockett , 1863. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 10. 12mo. measuring 6.5″ x 4″. Deep lilac stapled card covers. Light rubbing to the extremities, neat period ink name to the title page else contents bright, clean, and unmarked. No extant copies available in commerce at time of cataloguing, and rarer still amongst institutional holdings with only one known copy housed at the Unviersity of Manitoba. Corresponds to OCLC #184792409. Stapled Wraps.Comprises of eleven poems attributed to “C.I.W.”: The sailor’s child –On leaving Llanfair –Faith –Hope –Love –On hearing the clock strike twelve on the 31st December, 1861 –Sunrise –The wreck of the Neptune –Written for my brother G.H.W. –The nun –On L.Z.’s birthday. (#1679) $75.00