Chapbook entitled 'The History of the Earl of Derwentwater Containing His Life, Trial, Sentence, & Execution, Also A Copy of Pathetic Verses ['Lines on the Fate of Lord Derwentwater'].'

12mo (roughly 16.5 x 9.5 cm): 24 pp. Good, on aged paper, with slightly dogeared corners. No stitching or stapling binding the leaves together. An attractive production, more sophisticated than is usual with a chapbook. Crisply printed in small type. Title enclosed within a decorative border and containing vignette of the royal coat of arms. Headed, in a small neat contemporary hand, 'Purchased at Whitby. | 30 Aug 1862'. The poem 'Lines on the Fate of Lord Derwentwater' (pp.18-19, 24 lines in six stanzas) begins 'How mournful feeble Nature's tone, | When Dilston Hall appears;'. Another poem on p.24 (12 lines in three stanzas) begins 'When I watch the sun as he sinks to rest, | On his purple couch in the gorgeous west;'. Tiny vignettes (p.19) of two horses and jockeys racing; and another at end (p.24) of phoenix in flames. Ownership inscription (in hand different from the other) of the Leeds folklorist Charles Lolley at head of first page of text (p. 3). COPAC lists this title by several Newcastle printers (Fordyce, Bowman and Ross), but only three entries printed by Walker: in the National Library of Scotland, the Bodleian and the library of the Society of Antiquaries of London.