Ceres Races

2mo (19 x 12 cm). pp 96. Monochrome frontispiece. Original paper-covered boards backed by red cloth. Decorative endpapers. Boards heavily soiled; edgeworn; corners bumped. Toning to endpapers and adjacent leaves. Ownership inscription to recto of frontispiece. Pages with the odd spot. Several pages with marginal pencil annotations, commenting on people mentioned in the poem or interpreting the verse. Binding firm. A scarce volume of nineteenth century poetry referring to the long-established Highland Games and Races held in the village of Ceres in Fife. The online Dictionaries of the Scots Language cites lines from the poem as sources of Scots vocabulary. The interpretive annotations add to the interest of the book.