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8vo (164 × 98 mm), pp. viii, 236, 12 (adverts). Light marginal waterstaining, extreme upper forecorner torn away on 4 leaves. Original publisher’s decorative green cloth, gilt. Very slight fraying to head of spine. Author’s presentation inscription dated October 1866 to pasted-in sheet at front, slightly later ownership inscription across title. A good copy.
First edition, this copy presented by the prolific Cornish poet John Harris to fellow Shakespeare enthusiast George Linnaeus Banks (author of All About Shakespeare, 1864). The several Shakespeare poems were penned at the time of the tercentary of his birth in 1864, while the Indian story is a Christian fable set among the native Americans, on the theme of ‘Give unto others, as ye would receive.’ Harris was a Cornish tin miner with no formal schooling, who composed his earliest work while living and working underground. His first collection of poems appeared in 1853 and he published ten more in his lifetime (Stephan in ODNB).
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