Author: MARTIN (Alfred Tobias John):
Title: The Remains of the Late Tobias Martin of Breage, in Cornwall, Mine Agent, with a Memoir of the Author.
Description: Helston: Printed at the Temple of the Muses by W. Penaluna, 1831. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 178 x 105 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 258, with errata slip tipped in before first page of contents, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, black leather label, with a blank bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper. The work consists of a long biographical introduction and a number of poems and is dedicated "To the Adventurers, Agents, and Clerks of the Wheal Von Consolidated Mines, and to the Miners, Generally, of the County of Cornwall." A second edition was published in 1856. WorldCat locates copies of the first edition in BL; North Carolina, California Davis, and Stanford. Uncommon

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