His First Book
The Strayed Reveller and other Poems.
London: B. Fellowes, Ludgate Street; R. Clay, Printer, 1849.
Price: $750.00
About the item
viii, 128 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. His First Book. Original dark-green blind-stamped straight grained cloth, with title lettered in gilt on spine. Almost a fine copy. Two bookplates. In green cloth slipcase and chemise. Hayward 256; Tinker 128; Smart 6- ‘exceedingly scarce; it was withdrawn from circulation before many copies were sold’; Ashley I, p. 9. Exhibirted at the Grolier Club, 'This powerful rime,' 1975, no. 62.
Item #252907
With the contemporary inscription "William Stubbs ma/Vicar of Havestock/ His book 1853."
