Cornish Dialect Verse. A Collection of four rare works bound...

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£150 - £200

Cornish Dialect Verse. A Collection of four rare works bound in one. Small 8vo. A very good copy; 'The American Civil War: A Tale of Two Cornish Miners! Or, the Humerous Adventures of Nicky Polglase and Willy Pender, in the United States of America,' 12 pages, published by T. T. Whear, Camborne, circa 1860. 'Jimmy Trebilcock; Or, the Humerous Adventures of a Cornish Miner, at the Great Exhibition,' 16 pages, publisher T. T. Whear, Camborne, 1863. (John Trenhaile). 'Dolly Pentreath and Other Humerous Cornish Tales in Verse,' portrait frontispiece, 46 pages, published by W. Wood, Devonport, circa 1860’s. Emily Jane May. 'St Malcolm’s Wood: A Cornish Legend,' 26 pages, published by D. Marples, Liverpool, 1866. All with their original printed coloured front papers bound in, nice quality twentieth century half maroon morocco, matching marbled sides and endpapers, a collection of scarce mid-nineteenth century humerous cornish tracts, the first three in dialect. Interestingly the first two not listed in any Cornish reference libraries.