The farmer's boy; a rural poem.
London.
Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1800.
First edition.
[2], xvi, 102pp.
[Bound with:] BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Rural tales, ballads, and songs. London. Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1802. First edition. [2], xi, [1], 105pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece.
Quarto. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, later renacked and recornered. Heavily rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, later printed booksellers description and shelf-label to FEP, recent bookplate of Edwin Waterhouse to verso of FFEP, scattered spotting.
[Bound with:] BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Rural tales, ballads, and songs. London. Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1802. First edition. [2], xi, [1], 105pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece.
Quarto. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, later renacked and recornered. Heavily rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, later printed booksellers description and shelf-label to FEP, recent bookplate of Edwin Waterhouse to verso of FFEP, scattered spotting.
The first edition of Suffolk poet Robert Bloomfield's (1766-1823) first published work - a pastoral poem which achieved immediate commercial success and critical acclaim, securing his reputation - together with the first edition of his second publication, Rural Tales, which, departing from the single long poem format, explores and glorifies rural life and occupations in a series of shorter pieces.
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 24109
