Item Detail
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John Russell Smith
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50
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Barnes, William
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Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
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8vo
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original brown cloth (a bit faded)
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London
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1847
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Second Edition
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411 p.
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20 cm.
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821 B263p 1847
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Enlarged. Presentation Copy: "Henry Allan Arden Esq. Thrice dear--as of Dorset--as a pupil and as a friend. W. Barnes 20 May 1861." Caroline Norton and Hardy were staunch admirers of this country poet whose eclogues were considered by his D.N.B. biographer as "unrivalled in English."