Author: MARRIOTT (John):
Title: A Short Account of John Marriott, Including Extracts from some of his letters. To which are added, some of his Poetical Productions.
Description: Doncaster: Printed and Sold by D. Boys. And sold in London by W. Phillips..., 1803. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo (in 4s), 164 x 102 mms., pp. [viii], [3], 4 - 194 [195 - 196 errata], including half-title, contemporary boards, cloth spine (soiled and snagged), uncut and many leaves unopened. John Marriott (1762 - 1797), a Quaker businessman and poet, was born in Edgend, a small village near Colne. He had a classical education, which is slightly reflected in the poems which are mostly on rural and bucolic themes; there is also a rather fulsome tribute to James Beattie, the Aberdonian philosopher and poet. Johnson: Provincial Poetry, 585.

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