Description
8vo, pp. [iv], xxxii, 128 + frontispiece and 5 woodcut plates. Contemporary mottled calf. Slightly spotted, some offsetting from plates. Rebacked, red leather label, hinges relined, old leather crackled to edges.
The Farmer’s Boy; A Rural Poem. The Fourth Edition.
- London: Printed for Vernor And Hood 1801
£50
Notes
An early reprint, the first edition being 1800. The plates and vignettes, traditionally attributed to Bewick, are in fact by John Anderson (1775-1808), who had been apprenticed to Bewick before being transported to Australia, where he died in ignominy at a young age.
