The white rose of York. : a midsummer annual. /
Hayhurst, Robert J.,former owner.StEdNL
Hogarth, George,1783-1870.
Murray, John,1778-1843,publisher.
Whitley and Booth,publisher.
[London] : Published by John Murray, Albemarle-Street, London. Whitley and Booth, and R. Leyland, Halifax.,
M D C C C X X X I V. [1834]
With a half title page.
Editor George Hogarth was a Scottish journalist and music critic, who became Charles Dickens's father-in-law. The anthology contains mainly contributions of poets based in the North of England, Scotland and Ireland.
The front pastedown ahs the armorial bookplate of "Robert J. Hayhurst". Hayhurst inherited and improved a successful group of retail pharmacies, John Hayhurst & Son, based in Nelson, Lancashire. He was a keen collector of naval history and of eighteenth-century literature in contemporary bindings.
Mid-19th century black Morocco with a gilt and blind tooled borders featuring rules and floral emblems.
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