Author:
‘Two Darset Maids’ [Arthur Nicholls; Dorset dialect poetry; Borough and Town of Weymouth Melcombe Regis; H. D. Warwick and W. J. Squibb, Weymouth printers]
Publication details:
‘Ye Olde Dorset Fayre’, 22 and 23 August 1923; H. D. Warwick, printer, Weymouth. The two titled ‘Wole Darset Vayre’, 24 and 25 August 1927 and 21, 22 and 23 August 1929. The first printed by Warwick and the second by W. J. Squibb of Weymouth.
Three scarce items: no other copy traced. The three pamphlets are uniform in design, each consisting of 4pp, 12mo, stapled into card wraps with title and date beneath the Borough crest. Presumably produced for distribution at the annual town fair. The text of each poem covers all four pages. The first two are in good condition, lightly aged; the last is in fair condition, slightly ruckled and spotted. ONE: ‘Ye Olde Dorset Fayre’. At the Royal Palm Court, Weymouth, 22 and 23 August 1923. Poem ‘By Two Darset Maids’ beginning: ‘Come in, me vriends, and look around, / We got all zarts to zell:’.
