SUBSCRIBER'S COPY
Miscellaneous poems.
Kidderminster.
Printed by T. Pennell, 1832.
First edition.
8vo.
[6], 40pp. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Internally clean and crisp. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to verso of front blank fly-leaf. Subscriber's copy, ink ownership inscription to FEP: 'Mrs. Brown Westhead / Lea Castle'.
A crisp copy of the sole edition of a collection of devotional verse, seemingly the only published work of curate of Kidderminster Thomas Cook, of whom little is known.
This copy belonged to John Brown, resident of Lea Castle in the village of Wolverley, near Kidderminster. On his death the estate passed to his daughter and then, by marriage, into the Westhead family.
From the recently dispersed library of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
OCLC and COPAC together record copies at just two locations (BL and Illinois).
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 22379
This copy belonged to John Brown, resident of Lea Castle in the village of Wolverley, near Kidderminster. On his death the estate passed to his daughter and then, by marriage, into the Westhead family.
From the recently dispersed library of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
OCLC and COPAC together record copies at just two locations (BL and Illinois).
