The Farmer's Boy

United Kingdom: Printed By James Swan for Vernor & Hood, 1802. Bound in Full Tree Calf by T Gibbons, Bath. 'The Farmer's Boy' pp xxix 123 with 9 nice wood block prints. 'Rural Tales, Ballads & Songs' engraved portrait frontis with tissue guard, pp ix 119 with 11 nice wood block prints. CONDITION Boards fresh wirh chipped spine, cnrs sl… Read more about this item

London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1858. Hardcover. Some heavy spots of foxing, mainly to endpapers and title leaf. Prize label from the "Edinburgh Institution" on front endpaper, dated 1864. ; iv, 68 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to spine and front board. Page dimensions: 194 x 126mm.… Read more about this item

Recently rebound in tan calf binding with red title plate and gilt lettering. Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy was the most successful poem of the "Romantic" period, selling 100,000 copies between 1800 and 1830. However, what was marketed was not the poem which the working-class Bloomfield had written, but a highly polished, politely spelled and punctuated re-write, prepared by the local… Read more about this item

Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1858. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1858. No Edition Remarks. 68 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards and binding to be loose. However, boards and pages throughout remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions and… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1880. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. 8 1/8" X 5 1/2". 68pp. Embossed blue cloth over bevelled boards, with upper board elaborately lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to cloth, with scattered rubbing, edgewear, light soiling, and bumping and small tears to extremities. Text block separating, with most pages loose and laid in. All pages… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Vernor And Hood, 1801. 8vo, pp. [iv], xxxii, 128 + frontispiece and 5 woodcut plates. Contemporary mottled calf. Slightly spotted, some offsetting from plates. Rebacked, red leather label, hinges relined, old leather crackled to edges. An early reprint, the first edition being 1800. The plates and vignettes, traditionally attributed to Bewick, are… Read more about this item

London: Vernor and Hood, 1803. Seventh edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Seventh edition, 1803, hardcover with full leather binding, octavo, 104pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with average wear to edges and spine ends, handsome gilt decoration to spine, outer hinges worn, binding tight, previous owner's plates and signatures to front endpapers, otherwise text shows some toning and foxing,… Read more about this item

New York: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870 AEG. 74 pgs. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in black & gilt, corners and spine ends worn, else clean and bright. A long, four-part pastoral poem which makes observations about rural life throughout the seasons. Illustrated with engravings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir and G E Hicks. Publisher was at this… Read more about this item

The Farmer's Boy (A Rural Poem) by Robert Bloomfield, Illustrated with Thirty Engravings, From Drawings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir and G. E. Hicks. Hardback, 1858, published by Sampson, Low & Co., London, 68 pages + iv. Small octavo/8vo. Measures around 7 7/8" by 5 3/8" by 5/8". Burgundy cloth binding, gilt crest and lettering with gilt and black detail to… Read more about this item

1811. BLOOMFIELD, Robert. THE FARMER'S BOY: A RURAL POEM. London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe [et al], 1811. 16mo., full tree-calf leather, gilt stamping to spine. Twelth Edition. Bound with "Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs". Good (some scattered foxing; little chipping to spine & hinges). $100.00.

London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810. xlviii, 99pp, [5]. With four engraved plates. [Bound with:] BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Rural tales, ballads, and songs. London. Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1809. Sixth edition. [2], vi, 123pp, [1]. With 10 engraved plates. [And:] BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Wild flowers; or, pastoral and local poetry. London. Printed for Vernor, Hood, and… Read more about this item

Halifax: William Milner, 1835. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. small octavo. pp XVI, 175. 1st printing. Shows wear to head and tail of spine. Internally fine.

London:: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, , 1806.. Ninth edition (Vol. I) and Fifth edition (Vol. II).. old full straight-grain morocco gilt; a.e.g.. Some minor scuffs to the bindings; frontispiece foxed; both volumes tight and sound.. 12mo,. Engraved frontispiece portrait; engraved text illustrations..

Wilmington, Delaware: James Wilson, 1803. disbound, lacking boards (which were leather-bound - spine is still present), xxxvi, 251pp plus publisher's advt., some dog-earing to corners and browning to paper throughout. The other authors tagged on are Goldsmith, Gray (the Elegy), Parnell and Dr. Trotter. Rebinder? Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket.

London: Vernor and Hood /Rickman, Ingram, &c, 1801. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1801. Fourth edition. Hardcover, 8vo. half leather, with marbled paper over boards, with gilt and leather spine label. 128pp. frontis, plus other small engravings. Good. Rubbing to boards. Crude tape repair to foot of spine and upper corners. Loss to leather of spine. Ownership mark to… Read more 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… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1801. xxix, [2], 128pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, a further four engraved plates, and several engraved vignettes. [Uniformly bound with:] BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Rural tales, ballads, and songs. London. Printed for Vernor and Hood, 1802. Second edition. ix, [3], 119pp, [1]. With 12 engraved plates. [And:] BLOOMFIELD, Robert. The banks of wye;… Read more about this item

The Farmer's Boy (A Rural Poem) by Robert Bloomfield, Illustrated with Thirty Engravings, From Drawings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir and G. E. Hicks. Hardback, 1858, published by Sampson, Low & Co., London, 68 pages + iv. Small octavo/8vo. Measures around 7 7/8" by 5 3/8" by 5/8". Burgundy cloth binding, gilt crest and lettering with gilt and black detail to front… Read more about this item

London: Longman. Very Good. 1815. Hardcover. 13th edition, London, 1815. Fine wood engravings, attributed to Bewick, but Hugo says "they are not in his style. I believe them to be by Anderson." .

Vernor and Hood, Poultry, London., 1800. First edition. Royal octavo. pp xvi, 102, [2] adverts. 9 wood engraved vignettes by John Anderson. Twentieth century binding of half calf with raised bands, gilt decoration, marbled boards. Slight rubbing to tail of spine. Prelims a little spotted. Very good indeed.