LINCOLNSHIRE TALES - THE RECOLLECTIONS OF ELI TWIGG (First edition)

Mabel Peacock

Verlag: Jackson & Son and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London, 1897

Beschreibung

Antiquarian first edition. Sixteen short stories. English regional fiction, told almost entirely in local dialect. ***Very good in dark blue illustrated boards with gilt titles to the spine, and gilt titles and attractive peacock feathers gilt design to the front board. The boards are surprisingly clean for the age of the book, with just a few light handling marks here and there. The head and tail of the spine are slightly rubber, as are the extremities of the boards and corners, but there are no tears to the cloth, and no splitting of the fragile binding. There is no reading lean to the binding, and no reading creases to the spine. No shaking to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very clean, with no foxing - just some offsetting to the endpapers. No creases or tears. Pages clean. ***355 pages. 192mm x 132mm. ***Tales: A Point of Honour; Them Matches; Sinning and Saving; Parson and Clerk; A Protecting Angel; Brother and Brother; A Deuce of a Fix; The Temple-Leys Ghost; Paying the Price; Ned Sturt's Grew; Randal Westerby; Tatterfoal; His Wedded Wife; The Story of Luke; Simple Sammy; Them Americans. ***'Old Eli Twigg, the retired horse-dealer and horse-breaker, was standing in the open doorway of a carpenter's shop in his native village of Asgarthorpe, and administering salutary rebukes to youthful arrogance. ***If you have not no better notions than them there to bring over your tongue, Jack Besworth, he said, with severity, you had as well keep that mouth of yours shutten. Nobody's going to blacken women where I am. But abody may see what is the matter with you. You are as chuff as chuff because you are one-and-twenty year old, and has the free spending of the bit of brass your aunt willed you: that is why you think sich a sight of yoursen, and nowt of anybody else. And it is all your ig'erance as does it. You look here, money or no money, afore you have done you are safe to be as silly-soft about some lass as ever Solomon in all his glory was.' (Quote taken from page 12-13 "A Point of Honour") ***'Tales, Rhymes and ?Folk-Speech? - the work of Mabel Peacock - "Tales & Rhymes in the North Lindsey Folk-Speech" (1886) and "Taales Fra Linkisheere" (1889) contain between them nineteen standalone short stories, thirty-eight ?owd-fashion?d? riddles, six poems and several retellings of Aesop?s Fables. Of the stories, four are versions of established folktales; the rest seem to be original, although two feel like traditional fables. Apart from one essay in Standard English on Lincolnshire history, in Tales & Rhymes, both these books are entirely in thick dialect. "Lincolnshire Tales: the Recollections of Eli Twigg" (1897) is a different book altogether. The title character, a retired horseman in a fictional mid-Victorian North Lincolnshire village, tells his tales to an unidentified listener, who introduces them in Standard English. Eli?s narration, and all the dialogue within each tale, is reproduced in mild but still-credible dialect. The large cast of vivid characters sometimes (re-)appear in each other?s stories, and some later episodes refer to earlier ones. Recollections is clearly a mature and quite sophisticated piece of writing, dealing honestly with the realities of contemporary rural life with an appealing charm and lightness of touch. All three books were published in limited runs by the Brigg bookseller, George Jackson. ***A lovely copy of this antiquarian first edition, in the original peacock-decorated blue cloth-covered boards. Quite scarce in this condition. ***Of interest to collectors of antiquarian books on Lincolnshire dialect and old Lincolnshire stories. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6484

Bibliografische Details

Titel: LINCOLNSHIRE TALES - THE RECOLLECTIONS OF ...

Verlag: Jackson & Son and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1897

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued

Auflage: First Edition