A Sketch from Nature: A Rural Poem

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Anon. [Drayton, J. B.]. A Sketch from Nature: A Rural Poem. London: printed for Gale, Curtis and Fenner,Paternoster Row; James Black, York Street; Robert Jennings, Poultry; and John Martin, Holles Street, Cavendish Square, 1814. First Edition. Half Leather & Paper Covered Boards. Very Good. Dated from a footnote. 53pp. Printed by C. Whittingham at Chiswick. Half title present. Drayton’s first book published anonymously but later collected in a revised form together with other shorter pieces in a, no longer anonymous, volume from the same publishers along with T. Henney, Cheltenham, called The Early Minstrel: OR, A Sketch from Rural Nature (2nd. edition 1817). Plain modern sympathetic binding with printed paper label on upper board. Some pages opened unevenly at fore edge. Very occasional spot of foxing. Extremely scarce. Unlike both his poetic responses to Bunyan, neither this nor The Early Minstrel are in Johnson’s Provincial Poetry 1789-1839.