Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. With a Dissertation and Glossary. Second Edition. WITH AUTHORS INSCRIPTION.

BARNES, WILLIAM:

Published by London, John Russell Smith, 1847 (2nd. edition, the dissertation and glossary enlarged and corrected)

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Hardback, approx 7.5 x 4.5 inches. In dark green morocco leather fine binding by ?T. Aitken,? with decorative gilt panelled boards, raised banding and full gilt decorations to spine with twin brown leather spine labels. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In later blue leather book-style box case. In very good condition. Some minor darkening and rubbing to spine. Some minor light rubbing to boards and some rubbing to corners. Loose newspaper clipping and portrait of Barnes in front.Binders stamp to verso corner of endpaper with neat previous owners? inscription ?Leonna Blanden.? Inscription by Barnes on opposite prelim ?To Frederick Cosens Esq, Factis, non verbis, amico. With the Author?s very kind regards.? Some occasional minor handling marks to page else a very good clean and tight copy. Box case is later, chipped at spine ends and cracked on front hinge. viii + 411pp. Including Glossary Scarce. From the library of Bernard Jones, ( literary critic), with his name and date written in pencil on last page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. With a Dissertation and Glossary. Second Edition. WITH AUTHORS INSCRIPTION.
• Publisher: London, John Russell Smith, 1847 (2nd. edition, the dissertation and glossary enlarged and corrected)
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