Lewesdon hill: a poem.
Oxford.
At the Clarendon Press, 1788.
Second edition.
Quarto.
[8], 28pp. With a leaf describing the off-shore fortifications off Cherbourg misbound after initial three leaves. Modern paper boards. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp.
William Crowe (bap. 1745, d. 1829), Anglican clergyman and poet. The second appearance (printed in the same year as the first) of Crowe's best known poem on the picturesque Lewesdon Hill, west of Beaminster in Dorset; much admired by Coleridge, Moore, Rogers and Wordsworth.
ESTC T125896.
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref: 28912
