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[005269] Bloomfield, Robert. The Farmer’s Boy; A Rural Poem. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; Darton Harvey, and Co.; and Walker and Edwards, 1815. Reprint. 16mo. Hardback. Good. [3], ii-xlviii, [3], 4-99pp, [5]. Contemporary full straight grain morocco, semi-raised double bands, spine divided into four panels, title in gilt to second panel, author to third, first and fourth with gilt cross with small volute tools to compartments, covers with single line border and rope roll inner border with an anthemion roll frame, small shell patterned endpapers

Minor rubbing to extremities, internally lightly browned with a few spots of foxing, but generally fairly clean

With woodcuts after Thomson, Thurston, and Hunter by Rhodes, Armstrong, and Fitler

An attractively bound copy of the thirteenth edition of Bloomfield’s popular pastoral poem (though he was a London based shoemaker). See The Publication of The Farmer’s Boy by B. C. Bloomfield in The Library, Vol. XV, No.2, June 1993