“It is a really excellent repository of the best local poetry of the Northern Counties, the specimens being selected with sound judgment, and the pithy biographies being in the case of each poet supplied by some writer well situated to obtain original and reliable information.”—Lancashire Evening Post.
“Mr. Andrews has not only achieved success, but deserved it.”—Eastern Morning News.
“All lovers of English literature will eagerly welcome this work.”—York Gazette.
“It is really a handsome and interesting book. It is a permanent addition to the literature of the North Country.”—Newcastle Weekly Chronicle.
“The biographical sketches are interesting in the extreme.”—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.
“The memoirs are exceedingly well done, and the sample pieces have been chosen with sound critical judgment.”—Christian Leader.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited.
Hull: William Andrews & Co., Hull Press.
[AN IMPORTANT BOOK FOR REFERENCE.]
F’cap 4to. Bevelled boards, gilt tops, Price 4s.
FAMOUS FROSTS AND FROST FAIRS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time.
By WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.,
Author of “Curiosities of the Church,” “Old-Time
Punishments,” etc.
Only 400 copies printed, each copy numbered, and only 50 remain on sale. Three curious full-page illustrations.