To Circumjack Cencrastus or The curly snake /
MacDiarmid, Hugh,1892-1978.
Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood & Sons Ltd.,
1930.
MacDiarmid regarded To Circumjack Cencrastus as his most ambitious effort in Scots. He would turn to English for the long didactic poems that would occupy him in the future.
With a half-title page.
MacDiarmid regarded To Circumjack Cencrastus as his most ambitious effort in Scots. He would turn to English for the long didactic poems that would occupy him in the future.
Designer binding of blue goatskin with a design of black, blue, grey and tan morocco with gilt sunburst pattern, spine lettered in gilt, turn-ins with gilt border and three gilt circles, signed on the rear turn-in by Arthur Currie. All textblock edges gilt. In the original fold over box. Currie (born 1922) worked at Oliver & Boyd, where he was binding overseer. He later became a senior lecturer at Napier College, now Napier University.
Scotland Edinburgh.