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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Dark red cloth over boards, with gold lettering on the front cover. Title page dated 1890. 75 pages. Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners. Some dampstaining evident to back cover and rear pastedown. Boards are bowed, with some scuffing. Foxing to fore-edge. Binding is cocked, but still whole. Previous owner's bookplate is affixed to the front free endpaper. Pages have toned, but are free from unwanted markings. Black-and-white frontispiece; signed by the author, in ink, below the frontispiece. Collection of poems by the British poet Cessford R.S. Fairley. Signed by Author(s).…

"In Paper Covers, 2/- ; Boards, 2/6; By Post 2d. extra." First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 7.25" x 5.00" x 0.50" [18.7cm x 12.8cm x 1.4cm]. pp.8/pp.163 Original light blue boards. Gilt title to front cover: "Masonic Songs, Oddfellowship Songs, &c. &c." Boards rubbed and bumped. Spine dulled with similar gilt title: "Masonic Songs, &c. J. Blair." Original dark brown endpapers. Library label to verso of the front board: "Freemasons' Hall Library, Leicester". Printed title-page. Colophon to verso of the title-page: "Printed by T. C. Blair, Musselburgh." Clean English text throughout. A very good copy of this scarce book.** John Blair, Bard, a member of the Lodge Journeyman 8. John Blair (1819-1889) was forced to leave school a 8 years following the death of his father, and work in a typographical foundry, later becoming a journalist and apart from a stay of 4 years in London, lived all his life in Edinburgh. John Blair eventually became manager of the Marr Type Foundry. He died in early March, in Edinburgh, in his 71st year. He was a man of active mind and much ability. He Was the main editor of the North British Express during the time it existed. He was a Chartist leader, prominent Freemason and Oddfellow, and a poet.…