This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...Preston. "With a Notice of the Author. 16mo, pp. 64. With a glossary of phrases, and some account of the various poems. Saltaire: 1872. The second and latest collected ed. of Mr Preston's Dialect poems. The additional ones are the following: 1. Poll Blossom, or t' Folly o' Pride. The first Dialect poem of the author, written in 1854, and published at Bradford the same year, 16mo, pp. 8, under the title of 'A Poetical Sarmon, preycht to t' White Heathens o' Wibsa, i' ther Native Tongue. Be a Latter-Day Saint.' Two more editions followed. 2. Owd Moxy. First published in the 'Bradford Observer, ' some years ago. 3. T' Lancashire Famine. This appeared as a broadside at the time, under the title 'An Appeal to the English and Irish in Yorkshire, on behalf.of the starving in Lancashire.' 4. T' Sacred Drawer. 5. Uncle Ben. First published in the Leeds Dialect Almanac 'Tommy Toddles, ' in 1865. 6. T' Short Timer. Published in the 'Bradford Observer, ' 1870. 7. T' Maistur o' t' Haase: A Pictur. Published at Bradford, in 1859. I6mo, pp. 8. 8. Stand up Lads, an' let's hev a Feyt. Published in the Yorkshire, Christmas Annual, 1871. 9. Come to thi Gronny, Doy Published in the 'Peterborough Times, ' and afterwards (1871) in a Yorkshire journal. All Mr Preston's poems are very faithful to their phase of Dialect, and several are noticeable for their literary merit. Bradford Songs. No. 1. An injured Woman's Complaint. By E. Chippendale. Broadsheet. Bradford. In the Dialect of the place. Idonia, and other Poems. By James Burnley. Bradford: 1869. Contains several songs in the Dialect of Bradford. The Yorkshire Magazine. Large 8vo. Bradford: 1871. Yet publishing, monthly, at this place. In five consecutive Nos., from Oct, 1872, to Feb., 1873, are...