Author: by the author of"My Brother Paul"..[i.e. Fletcher, afterwards Massey.]
Title: THE STOLEN MONEY And other stories
Description: London, Religious Tract Society 1877 according to Bl chromolith frontispiece + decorated titlepage . 149x100mm green decorated pebbled cloth with decorated gilt title to cover/lower cover blindstamped (marginal sm.ink mark + 3 tiny ink spots to lower cover/tips rubbed somewhat loose] 64pp + frontis. Ownership to front free endpaper dated [18]78. Lacks the rear free endpaper else internally clean and tight. The entire book is in verse and includes 4 other poems. The Stolen money was taken by Joe to settle a gambling debt,and he runs away to escape the law.His sister meashile pays off the debt while meanwhile Joe has decided to earn money to pay the debt after refusing to steal again he finds work and in 2 years he collects enough to return to his village.Unfortunately he stays overnight at the inn and is robbed but he finds his sister as he is about to flee from arrest.She tells him the debt has been paid by her and he is free. Other poems "The gardener's boy" Cobbler and his pupil "My goldfinch" etc. RARE the British Library lost its only copy in WWII when the library was bombed since they are the only COPAC listing of this title they have left the information from pre-war catalogues prefixing the entry with D- for books lost during the blitz. Very few copies available online.

Keywords: Moral victorian poems


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