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Skelton, John Fawcett. The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs. London / Manchester: Simkin, Marshall & Co. / Heywood, 1876. First Edition. Rebacked Original Publisher’s Purple Cloth Boards. Very Good. 200pp. Inscribed by Skelton in blue pencil in April 1876 for a Mr Briscoe, the Nottingham Public Librarian. There are quite a number of corrections to the text in the same pencil as well as a few in standard pencil. Tipped onto the front pastedown is a four page humorous & chatty letter dated October1877 detailing current work. Sympathetically re-backed with some rubbing at edges & fore corners of boards.
Of Leaves 
Book of Mercy 
Being Alive 
States of Happiness 
Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume One) (Selected and Introduced by William Boyd) 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Staying Alive