Author: E. W. Brayley
Title: Views in Suffolk Norfolk and Northamptonshire Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield to Which Is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet&Apos;S Life
Description: London, Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806. First edition. Leather. A handsomely rebound copy of this highly illustrative guide to the works of Robert Bloomfield. The first edition of the work. With the bookplate of one Christopher Harrison to the front pastedown. With an engraved title page and fourteen copper engraved plates. Half title present. Collated complete. With engravings by John Greig and James Storer. Edward Wedlake Brayley was an English historian and topographer, known as one of the co-editors of The Beauties of England and Wales. This work offers a memoir of British working class poet, Robert Bloomfield, who wrote extensively of his home county of Suffolk and the surrounding areas. Brayley describes the various areas, including Sapiston, Whittlebury Forest and Shooter's Hill, to name a few, with many accompanying engravings. Rebound in half calf with marbled boards. Externally smart with slight rubbing to the boards and extremities. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with scattered spotting, heavier to the first and last few pages. Offsetting to the occasional page from plates. Very Good . Ill.: John Greig; James Storer. Very Good .

Keywords: Robert Bloomfield Burns Suffolk The Beauties of England and Wales Burns John Greig; James Storer


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