Author: William Barnes
Title: Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
Description: London, John Russell Smith, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition copy of the third collection of poems in the Dorset dialect by William Barnes, celebrating rural life. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplates to the front paste down and front free end paper. The first edition of William Barnes's third anthology of poems written in the Dorset dialect. A language purist, Barnes advocated for the use and proliferation of "strong old Anglo-Saxon speech." 18 pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally sound, with splitting to the head of the joints, a small loss and some fading to the spine, and shelf wear to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: James Soppitt. Very Good .

Keywords: Poetry Dorset William Barnes Rural life Dorset James Soppitt


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