The Chimney Corner

Hardback. 292p. Over 40 Lancashire tales largely in dialect by the dialect poet Edwin Waugh. Many previously appeared in the Manchester journal, The Critic. Titles include: Wakken Beggar; The Lost Donkey; Snick-Snarls; The Swallowed Sixpence; Lobscouse; A Berrin' Posy, etc. Frontis retains the tissue guard. Vignette to title page is by Ralph Caldecott and the black and white frontis An old chimney corner in Chadderton Fold is by John Houghton Hague appropriately of the Manchester School of Painters. Navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt facsimile signature to the front is very clean and bright. Blind stamped flower design to the back board. slightly softened to spine ends else very neat. Very good copy.