The sabbath, with sabbath walks, and other poems ... The eighth edition
Edinburgh: printed for Ogle, Allardice, & Thomson, Parliament Square; Ogles, Duncan, & Cochran, London; and M. Ogle, Glasgow [by John Pillans, printer, Edinburgh], 1817. First edition, foolscap 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 161, [1]; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; touch of rubbing to extremities of spine, owner's signature of Mary Brandon on first page of the poem, near fine. James Grahame (1765-1811) was a Scottish poet from Glasgow. The book was first published in 1805, and it is his best-known work. "His principal work, The Sabbath, a sacred and descriptive poem in blank verse, is characterized by devotional feeling and by happy delineation of Scottish scenery. In the notes to his poems he expresses enlightened views on popular education, the criminal law and other public questions. He was emphatically a friend of humanity-a philanthropist as well as a poet" (Wikipedia). Item #66731
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