Author: DILKS (John):
Title: The Artist's Bride, and Other Poems;
Description: Nottingham: James Dilks and Cod., Parliament Square. 1857. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, 162 x 105 mms., pp. [5] 6 - 98. colour frontispiece, steel-engraved vignette on title-page, embossed limp blue boards, with title in gilt oval on front cover; a little worn, but a good copy. The title poem ends on page 49 of the volume, with notes on the verso. The verse is in quatrains, and the narrative elucidates the difficulties that the "Artist" encounters in trying to marry his beloved Ellen. BL, NLS, Cambridge, Nottingham, Bodleian; Yale

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