THE JOURNALS, LETTERS, & VERSES OF MARJORY FLEMING IN COLLOTYPE FACSIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Majory Fleming (1803-11) was a Scottish child author, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, who became posthumously famous for her free-thinking and precocious diaries. Written mainly in Edinburgh and the holiday retreats of Ravelston and Braehead, they provide an authoritative record of Marjory’s life, schoolwork, and passing. The attention given to these diaries in the later Victorian period saw her fêted by men of letters, and embedded in the public consciousness. Royal octavo: xix, [1], 182 pp. with a frontispiece portrait, a plate, and collotype facsimiles throughout. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling on the front panel and a gilt-stamped brown leather spine label. Top edge gilt, with brown endpapers. Just a hint of foxing to the fore-edge; else near fine in a moderately toned dust jacket. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. Near fine / Very good. Item #79230
Price: $100.00