Songs of a season

Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1895. First edition. Octavo, original blind blocked brown cloth over bevelled boards, upper board lettered and decorated in gilt (upper board marked), previous owner’s bookplate to front pastedown, title page with original owner’s initials ‘E.B.L.’ and date ‘16.2.95’, pp. 52, occasional pencilled marginalia; otherwise a very good copy.

Collection of verse by Francis Kenna (1865-1932), poet, journalist, and Labor Member of the Legislative Assembly in Queensland. Kenna was editor of the Brisbane Worker.