Village scenes and subjects on rural occupations : Helpstone [Peterborough] : autograph manuscript, 1820 Aug. 21.

Record ID: 
130663
Accession number: 
MA 1320
Author: 
Clare, John, 1793-1864.
Credit: 
Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1950.
Description: 
1 item (116 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes: 

On t.p.: "By John Clare, the Northamptonshire Peasant, Author of "Poems on Life & Scenery" & "Rural Poems & Songs."
Contains sixteen poems, two of them apparently unpublished.
Fills first third of ruled copy-book.

Housed in: 
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27.5 cm)
Binding: 
Brown diced leather; printed alphabetical index (not filled in) at beginning of volume.
Provenance: 
Auctioned by Anderson Galleries, New York, in a sale of books belonging to Edmund D. Brooks of Minneapolis in Apr. 1919; bookplate of Josephine B. Crane.