£1,197
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Edinburgh: [printed for the author, 1897]. Broadside, 25.4 x 20.2cm, printed on recto only, floral border, signed by the author at head ('Sir Wm Topaz McGonagall, Poet'), with his autograph correction to one word, old folds, short splits to ends of folds, a few small stains
Note: Very rare broadside by the infamously bad Scottish poet, no other copies traced in libraries or in commerce. The storming of the Dargai heights was a noted action in the 1897 Tirah campaign on India's north-west frontier, led by the Gordon Highlanders.