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[SKETCH]. A sketch from nature. A rural poem.

London. Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner et al., 1814. First edition.
8vo. vi, [3], 10-53pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's drab paper boards, Extremities a trifle rubbed. Lightly spotted.
The first edition, in original state, of this anonymous pastoral poem 'attempted at an early period of life' which 'consists chiefly of a series of local scenery much endeared to the author', frustratingly however our reticent writer has omitted 'all nominal allusions to the particular spot described'. The rather juvenile verse concludes with a rather sudden diversion into an argument for the divine origin of the Bible.

Rare, with COPAC recording only a single copy (BL).
£ 375.00 Antiquates Ref: 17185