Beschreibung:

Clare (John) Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, second edition, without 4pp. advertisements at end, half-title with ink signature of H.Molesworth St.Aubyn to head and lightly soiled, F11 lacking small portion at fore-edge not affecting text, hinges weak, contemporary half calf, roan label, rubbed, London and Stamford, 1820 § Hitchins (Fortescue) The Sea Shore with other poems, first edition, half-title, list of subscribers, errata leaf at end, ink signature of Elizabeth Scott to front free endpaper and bookplate of John Jope Rogers, endpapers foxed, contemporary half red roan, corners worn, Sherborne, for the author, 1810; and a new edition of Byron's Monody on the death of...Sheridan, 1817, 8vo et infra (3) ⁂ The first mentioned is the author's scarce first book, published in an edition of 1000 copies in January 1820 and sold out by March of that year. Described as written by "a Northamptonshire peasant" on the title page Clare's poetry concerns nature and the countryside and often uses Northamptonshire dialect. The second item is by a Cornish solicitor and poet from St Ives whose father, Malachy Hitchens, was at one time computer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich under Dr.Nevil Maskelyne and who also assisted Rev. Richard Polwhele in his History of Cornwall. Both appear in the list of subscribers, as does a Mrs. Scott of St.Ives so this is most probably a subscriber's copy.