About this title: Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823), was an English poet. He was born of a poor family in the village of Honington, Suffolk. He apprenticed at the age of eleven to a farmer, but he was too small and frail for field labour, and four years later he went to London to work for a shoemaker under an elder brother, enduring extreme poverty. The poem that made his reputation was The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem (1800). The success of the poem was remarkable, over 25,000 copies being sold in the next two years. Bloomfield's poetry is smooth, correct, and characterised by taste and good feeling, but lacks fire ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sampson Low, Son and Marston, London
Description: Good. No Jacket. Good. No Jacket 65pp. Has wear. Covers rubbed and soiled. Pages foxed and lightly dampstained at lower edgesm bot affecting text. Lang: English. Vols: 1, Wt: 1lbs. read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00076 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bastian Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554395128ISBN:0554395126
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bastian Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554302096ISBN:0554302098
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BiblioLife
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554395128ISBN:0554395126
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 9.21 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00116 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BiblioLife
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780554302096ISBN:0554302098
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 10 by 7 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00116 pages) large print edition lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Locken, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1851
Description: Rural tales. Complete with a frontispiece. Subjects: Blanchard [engraver]. A fair to good copy in the original publisher's gilt-patterned cloth, with decorative endpapers. Outer front hinge cracked and loose. Very lightly dust-dulled, usual age spots internally, otherwise remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1. pp. 237. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Daly, London
Date Published: n. d
Description: Presumed first. Red blind-stamped cloth over boards with title and decoration gilt on spine. No DJ. Page edges gilded on all sides. Small book, 2 7/8 x 4 5/8. 168 pages plus black & white frontis. Cloth is rubbed and soiled with light wear to extremities. Pages lightly browned with foxing on first few and last few, 4 pages have more browning from newsclipping tucked between. Good. Binding tight and square. Pages clean. read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Locken, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1851
Description: Rural tales. Complete with a frontispiece. Subjects: Blanchard [engraver]. A fair to good copy in the original publisher's gilt-patterned cloth, with decorative endpapers. Outer front hinge cracked and loose. Very lightly dust-dulled, usual age spots internally, otherwise remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vernor and Hood, London
Date Published: 1805
Description: A Rural Poem. 8th Ed. Sm. 8vo. [x] + xxvii + 122pp. + [ii] adverts. Port. frontis., 10 plates and many woodcuts. Some sl. offsetting, ex. -libris Wm. Cranmer Mitchell, new e. ps., rebound in modern calf backed cloth boards with leather title label to spine. read more
Description: Good. 32mo-over 4"-5" tall. "A rural poem. Also Rustic Tales, Ballads, and Songs including Richard And Kate, The Miller's Maid, Walter and Jane, Market Night, The Fakenham Ghost and Other Poems. " Undated but early copy of the famous poem by the rural working class poet who preceded John Clare. The book contains an introduction by Capel Lofft, the Suffolk squire who was effectively Bloomfield's literary sponsor, in which he outlines the poet's life up to that point, quoting liberally from ... read more
Edition: Eighth and first editions
Binding: Quarter-green leather cover
Publisher: printed for Vernor and Hood et al, London
Date Published: 1805 and 1806 respectively
Description: G: in good condition. Covers rubbed and worn through at the corners. Hinges cracked and front endpaper missing. Soiling to some pages but overall reasonable clean. xxvii, 122pp: x, 132pp: Five vignettes by Thomas Bewick, eleven full page cuts by John Anderson and frontispiece by Nesbit. Four woodcuts by an unknown hand: 160mm x 105mm (6" x 4") read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BIBLIOBAZAAR
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781434694737ISBN:1434694739
Description: New. THE FARMER'S life displays in every part A moral lesson to the sensual heart. Though in the lap of Plenty, thoughtful still, He looks beyond the present good or ill; Nor estimates alone one blessing's worth, From changeful seasons, or capricious eart... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: KESSINGER PUB LLC
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781419161988ISBN:1419161989
Description: New. THE FARMER'S life displays in every part A moral lesson to the sensual heart. Though in the lap of Plenty, thoughtful still, He looks beyond the present good or ill; Nor estimates alone one blessing's worth, From changeful seasons, or capricious eart... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sampson, Low, Son & Co. 1857
Date Published: 1857
Description: VG. Sm8vo. VG. Sm8vo. Illustrated with thirty engravings, from drawings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, and G. E. Hicks. Binding taped and repaired, though loosening. All pages gilt as is titling on cover. Full leather bound. 68 p. read more
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