The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books

Robert Pollok, A. M.

Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1840

About this Item

The Course of Time is a ten-book poem in blank verse, first published in 1827, the year of Pollok's death. With an author's portrait with facsimile signature to frontispiece. Fifteenth Edition The last published and most famous work of Scottish poet Robert Pollok. The first edition of the poem sold 12,000 copies, and by its fourth edition it had sold 78,000 copies and become well known even in North America. With bookseller's label to front pastedown and ink inscriptions to front pastedown and front free endpaper. In a cloth binding. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places, with frontispiece almost detached. Generally bright and clean throughout but with slight off-setting to title page from frontispiece. Good. Seller Inventory # GEN25-C-10

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books

Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh

Publication Date: 1840

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Condition: Good

Book Type: book