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Lawrie Todd; Lawrie Todd;

GALT, John. Lawrie Todd; or, The Settlers in the Woods. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 12mo. Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley. 1830
Glossary vol. III; sl. spotting. Uncut in contemp. half green calf, red labels. Booklabels of Haro Hodson.

¶Not in Sadleir or Wolff. A Scottish nailmaker called Lawrie emigrates with his brother to America; in his Cyclopdædia of British Literature (1844), Robert Chambers describes the novel as 'a work which seems to have no parallel, since Defoe, for apparent reality, knowledge of human nature, and fertility of invention'.
Stock #5014
£320


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