Warblin's fro' an Owd Songster. Subscribers' Edition [Warblings from an Old Songster]

xv, [3], 376, xxii pp. Light brown cloth, gilt titles, black double borders, top edge gilt. Subscriber's edition, greatly expanded from his 1864 and 1866 collections Lancashire Poems and Lancashire Songs. A list of subscribers following text. Laycock's work was most notable for its incorporation of Lancashire dialect, specifically the vernacular of cotton workers. His father was a weaver, and he himself was a cotton mill worker. This collection was published shortly before his death.