THE FARMER'S BOY; A Rural Poem. The Eighth Edition.
by Bloomfield, Robert
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About This Item
Printed for Vernor and Hood. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. by J. Swan, Printer, London: ., 1805 pp. [12], xxvii, 122, [2] (Books printed for Vernor and Hood). With fine line woodcut illustrations and vignettes by Thomas Bewick, John Anderson, and others. 16mo (in 8's). 160 mm. Original half leather binging over marbled boards; spine tooled in gilt and varnished. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) wrote poetry of the English farmers and laboring classes. This is the poem that made his reputation. Composed in a garret in Bell Alley, it was influenced by James Thomson's poem The Seasons. Bloomfield was able to carry some fifty to a hundred finished lines of it in his head at a time until there was opportunity to write them down. The manuscript was declined by several publishers and was eventually shown by his brother George to Capel Lofft, a radical Suffolk squire of literary tastes, who arranged for its publication with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick in 1800. The success of the poem was remarkable, over 25,000 were sold within the next two years, and many thoudands more in the next decade. It was extremely popular in America. Unfortunately, Vernor and Hood, his publishers, went bankrupt (1812) and much of the rest of Bloomfield's life was spent in poverty and depression. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! POETRY 4 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.
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- THE FAMILY ALBUM (US)
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- Title
- THE FARMER'S BOY; A Rural Poem. The Eighth Edition.
- Author
- Bloomfield, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed for Vernor and Hood. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. by J. Swan, Printer, London: .
- Date Published
- 1805
- Keywords
- POETRY LITERATURE ENGLISH ENGLAND ROMANTICS PASTORAL FARMING LABOR ILLUSTRATED BEWICK
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- ILLUSTRATED; POETRY;
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Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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