The Rural Muse, Poems

by John Clare

$15,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition · Signed

First edition. Steel engraved frontispiece and title page by C. Marr; x, 175 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown vertical grain cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and blind on spine, and blocked in blind on front and rear covers. Very Good; covers lightly soiled, spine expertly reinforced, full brown morocco clamshell. Tinker 639; Tibble p. 202. Item #377113 Inscribed by Clare on the ffep, John Clare Novr

• Binding: Leather

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