£404
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
McGonagall's Ode to the King […] Bonnie Montrose. [Together with:] Descriptive Poem. Broughty Ferry […] The Den of Grey. [Edinburgh: printed for the author], 1902. 2 printed broadsides (31.5 x 25cm), each containing 2 poems and signed by the author ‘Sir Wm Topaz McGonagall Poet’ to head in black ink, both backed on paper, folded and with splits and tape-repairs to folds
Two rare broadsides by the infamously bad Scottish poetaster, printed a few months before his death. One copy of McGonagall's Ode to the King […] Bonnie Montrose traced in libraries, at the National Library of Scotland; no other copy located for Broughty Ferry […] The Den of Grey.