The Shepherd's Calendar: with Village Stories, and Other Poems

by John Clare

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. viii, 238, 2, publisher's catalogue pp., lacking engraved frontispiece. 12mo. Later three quarter calf and linen boards, t.e.g. Half-title and final catalogue leaf repaired at gutter, some staining to title-page. Item #302000 The first edition of the peasant poet John Clare's third volume of poetry, following the breakout success of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery 1820 and

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