May Day With The Muses

London: For The Author; and For Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half polished brown calf, marbled boards, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 100 pages. 16 x 10 cm. Title vignette, head and tail pieces, Bewick style wood engravings. A lesser poet of humble circumstances, a farm boy, who died mad, and whose work echoed that of the eighteenth century [see: CBEL, Vol. XII, p. 131]. Text and engravings generally clean, raised bands. spine panels gilt, slight joint corner wear. Early owner label free front endpaper.