CANADIAN CRYSTALS. POEMS. by Watson, Thomas - 1901

Toronto: William Briggs, 1901. 160 pp, 7 1/2" H, gray/green cloth with gilt lettering/banding/decoration on spine and front board. Verses by Canadian poet Thomas Watson (1857-1937), gathered under the headings: Patriotic; Imperial; Domestic; Educational; Matrimonial; Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year; In Memoriam & Evangelical. Titles include: Colborne; Colborne's Veterans; The Royal Visit; "Maple Beach"; The Canadian Contingent; Loughbreeze; Spring Hill Farm; Dominion Day; The Diamond Jubilee; The Queen's Birthday; Twelve Birthdays; The Voice of Music; A Crystal Wedding; Thanksgiving Day; Christmas; Exit 1900; The Twentieth Century; To Bereaved Ones; Another Treasure Taken; The Risen Christ; Gideon; Doxologies; etc., etc. Minor browning and a few very small foxing marks on the endpapers, several slight separations between page gatherings - all pges holding firmly in the binding, a small area of loss of cloth on the front edge of the spine, some areas of light staining on the boards, wrinkling at the top/bottom of the spine, slight darkening to the spine and to the edges of the text block. . Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.