Author: William Barnes
Title: Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
Description: London, John Russell Smith, 1863. Cloth. Re-backed copy of this second collection of poems celebrative of rural life by William Barnes. Second edition of this work. William Barnes's anthology of poems written in the Dorset dialect. A language purist, Barnes advocated for the use and proliferation of "strong old Anglo-Saxon speech." The second collection. William Barnes was an English polymath and philologist as well as poet and mathematician.Advertisements to rear. Re-backed with the original boards and part of spine restored in full cloth. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, light damp to perimeters of boards and fading to spine. Library bookplate, stickers and stamps to front endpapers, stamps to edges. Internally, firmly bound. Occasional leaf unopened. Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: rural poems william barnes dialect william barnes None
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Title: Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
Description: London, John Russell Smith, 1863. Cloth. Re-backed copy of this second collection of poems celebrative of rural life by William Barnes. Second edition of this work. William Barnes's anthology of poems written in the Dorset dialect. A language purist, Barnes advocated for the use and proliferation of "strong old Anglo-Saxon speech." The second collection. William Barnes was an English polymath and philologist as well as poet and mathematician.Advertisements to rear. Re-backed with the original boards and part of spine restored in full cloth. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, light damp to perimeters of boards and fading to spine. Library bookplate, stickers and stamps to front endpapers, stamps to edges. Internally, firmly bound. Occasional leaf unopened. Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: rural poems william barnes dialect william barnes None
Price: GBP 65.00 = appr. US$ 92.82 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 837A21
- Book number: 837A21
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