Broad Grins, Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, those Formerly Published Under the Title of My Night-Gown and Slippers

106pp. Numerous wood cut illustrations in text. Half bound in calf leather over marbled boards. Speckled edges. (leather scuffed and worn, especially round corners and spine folds, rubbed on edges). Suspected replacement endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A volume of so-called humorous poetry – mostly coarse although popular in its time. Colman was a interesting character a witty man welcome wherever he went who spent much of his life running the Haymarket Theatre in Edinburgh from prison. He ultimately became Lord Chancellor, responsible for licensing and censoring literature : Colman was severe, refusing to pass words such a ‘Heaven’ or ‘Angel’. Many of his own works would have failed his test.