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Bloomfield, Robert: Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire ; 0. (Bloomfield, Robert). Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire; Illust rative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: To W hich is Annexed, A Memoir of the Poet's Life, By E.W. Brayley. London: Vernor , Hood, and Sharpe; Darton and Harvey; and J. Storer and J. Grieg, Engravers, Chapel Hill, Pentonville (1818). Quarto; 56 pages of of text plus an engrave d title, frontispiece, a portrait of Bloomfield's old mother, and 12 full pag e engravings. Contemporary half black calf, gilt rolls on edges and spine, sp ine gilt 'VIEWS', marbled boards and end papers; some wear to extremities and minor foxing but a nice copy. Armorial bookplate of Galloway, booklabel of W alter J. Shepherd; ink signature of Sir R.H. Sheaffe Bt. / M.A.B. King, 1879 at top of title page. The topographical plates by John Grieg and James Storer are superb, depicting the picturesque rural scenes described in Bloomfield's poems. Bloomfield (1766-1823) was successively an agricultural laborer, shoe maker, aeolian harp maker, unsuccessful bookseller, and poet/versifier in spi te of poor circumstances, and wrote the then celebrated (for its pleasing rur al, somewhat rustic qualities) Farmer's Boy published in 1800. $300, ENGLAND 19THC (UR#:2751) Offered for sale by Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books at US$300.00
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Somerville, Dr Georgina. Editor.: Harp Aeolian. Commentaries on the work of Lady Margaret Sackville. ; Burrow's Press nd. Inscription 1953. Literature. Poetry. 84pp. Stiff paper covers. A few spot marks, possibly early foxing on front otherwise in very good order. A study of Lady Margaret's dramatic, lyrics and descriptive poems writen between 1918 & 1939 with comments by various people. 4960 Offered for sale by Ray Hennessey Bookseller at œ6.00
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CAMPBELL, Neal + harp & violin: Music of Harold Friedell ; Aeolian-Skinner organ St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Richmond/VA MP 9014 VIDEO 28 minutes Offered for sale by The Organ Literature Foundation at US$16.00
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Davidson, Lucretia Maria : Poetical Remains of the ; Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Poetical Remains of the Late Lucretia Maria Davidson. Collected and Arranged by Her Mother. With a Biography by Miss [Catharine Maria] Sedgwick. A New Edition, Revised. Boston: Philips, Sampson, and Company, 1854. Later Printing. Blanck notes that the title first appeared in 1841 (Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard) with new printings in 1843, 1851, 1871, etc. He does not cite this 1854 printing. Thick 12mo, 248pp; heavily embossed red cloth with an Aeolian harp i gilt at front panel; "Poetical Works of the Davidson Sisters," pregnant rule, "Irving & Sedgwick" and elaborate decorative devices in gilt at spine; yellow endpapers. Faint signature front flyleaf; tips and spine ends worn with wear to cloth along hinges; minor soiling, about very good. Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808-1825), born into a family raised on poetry, began writing verse herself at the age of 13. Her longest poem, "Amir Khan," tells of a "Christian maiden whose Muslim wooer narrowly averts her suicide." [Feminist Companion[ Her poetry ranges from domestic to patriotic to biblical generally conforming to contemporary sentiments and stereotypes. Yet occasionally, as NAW remarks, there is a startling realistic image arising from a life so closely intermingled with prolonged illness and death. She died of tuberculosis at 17 having already produced a fairly substantial body of poetry. Washington Irving edited the POETICAL REMAINS of Lucretia's younger sister Margaret whose career and early death paralleled the elder while Catharine Sedgwick edited Lucretia's. Reprints of both appeared regularly throughout the 19th century. See BAL 17385 for the 1841 edition. Feminist Companion, 267-268. NAW I, pp. 436-438. , WOMEN 2 3 WOMEN'S RIGHTS (UR#:6158 ) Offered for sale by Priscilla Juvelis, Inc., ABAA at US$50.00
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