198. Milliken, Richard Alfred / [Provenance: Hugh Hendrick, Cork, 1850].
The River Side / The River’s Side – A Poem by R A Millikin. [With an original Watercolour as Frontispice, possibly by Millikin himself, who was, among many other things, also a Watercolour-Artist]. Book I – Book II – Book III.
First and only Edition. [Cork], [1807]. Quarto. Frontispice – Watercolour, 147 pages with several of the pages misbound but complete. Private Half-Leather. Binding and Volume overall in very poor condition. Wide margins, formerly stitched. The Volume ahas all the trademarks of a working-copy, which could explain the stunning Watercolour as Frontispice (or even as titlepage). Faded dampstain to upper margins. While the Volume is rough, it has the typical charme of an underestimated, very rare publication by a local Cork poet [which is manifested by Milliken dedicating the work to the members of the Cork Library Society at the time]. This Volume is of utmost rarity.