Author: J. L. Cherry
Title: Life and Remains of John Clare
Description: London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1873. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this biography of English poet John Clare, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous decorations. The life of John Clare, an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside in his writing and his sorrows at its disruption. Written by J. L. Cherry, a British author and biographer. Illustrated by Myles Birket Foster, a British illustrator, watercolourist and engraver in the Victorian period. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot to the endpapers. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: Birket Foster. Very Good .

Keywords: Life Remains Clare Cherry Remains Birket Foster


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