Bickleigh Vale, with other Poems

Book Description

York: Printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1804. viii, 139, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and one plate, with the half-title but without the two leaves of subscribers issued with some copies (see below). Nice copy in contemporary calf gilt; slightly worn with a short split at head of the upper joint. First edition of some highly Romantic topographical and other poems. Bickleigh Vale is in deepest Devon; “the River Plym flows through it, in a very picturesque manner.” Shorter poems include “On a Friend’s Retreat,” “To the Echo of a Grotto,” “A Mother to her Natural Son,” and others. Aubin, Topographical Poetry, p. 272; Johnson, Provincial Poetry, 465, noting a subscribers’ list not present in this copy nor recorded in the OCLC or COPAC entries.

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