Author: Richmond, Legh 1772-1827] "Author of The Dairyman's Daughter"
Title: THE YOUNG COTTAGER A True Story [at top of Title "No. 151", bound with] THE NEGRO SERVANT An Authentic and Intereesting Narrative, in Three Parts [at top of Title "No. 119", bound with] THE DAIRYMAN'S DAUGHTER An Authentic and Interesting Narrative, in Five Parts. Communicated by a Clergyman of the Church of England [at top of Title "No. 118" & at foot of p2 "17th Ed. 6000"].
Description: London, W. Whittemore, F. Collins and J. Nisbet, printed by Benjamin Bensley 1820 approx. but no date given Titlepages (3) each with a large vignette. . Three Chapbooks in one volume, worn tan roan covers 48pp + 24pp +48pp. Each book begins on the back of the titlepage. Ownership H. Dod on flyleaf, edges of 1st titlepage browned & rubbed, a few other signs of use but complete and generally clean throughout. *A neat tight set of 3 titles by the Rev. Legh Richmond, who "was powerfully influenced by William Wilberforce's Practical View of Christianity, and took a prominent interest in the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Church Missionary Society and similar institutions. In 1805 he became assistant-chaplain to the Lock Hospital, London, and rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire, where he remained till his death on the 5th of May 1827. The best known of his writings is The Dairyman's Daughter, of which as many as four millions in nineteen languages were circulated before 1849. A collected edition of his stories of village life was first published in 1814 under the title of Annals of the Poor" (Wikipedia).

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