Jessie M. E. Saxby — Viking-Boys

London , James Nisbet & Co. 1898. Cloth. A scarce children's adventure story by the Shetland writer Jessie M. E. Saxby. "Foremost among the Shetlanders who wrote in English was the renowned Jessie M.E. Saxby, who was born 1842 as a member of the famous Edmondston family, descendants of a Scottish minister who had acquired land in Unst. A highly talented lady, she became a writer "by necessity", as she worded it herself, when she in 1874 found herself a widow with five (sic) sons to support." With a monochrome frontispiece and several other attractive plates. Presentation label, dated 1902, to front pastedown. In a decorative full cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with light wear to extremities. Backstrip sunned. Front hinge tender, rear strained. Internally, firmly bound. Bright and clean but for a few scattered spots. Good . Ill.: None. Good .