12mo. vii, [1], 121pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, some surface loss to lower boards, joints starting, loss to head and foot of dulled spine. Marbled endpapers, initial gathering dampstained, occasional short tears to margins, scattered spotting.

'As the following poems, when first written, were not intended to be published together in one volume, the reader will find the same thoughts occur divers times in the collection...the author hopes that, for the above reason, this will be excused by the candid reader'.

The sole edition of the collected verse of agricultural writer Edmund Rack (c. 1735-1787). The poems, predominantly composed in rhyming couplets, are sentimental and melancholic in nature. They include musings on nature and natural phenomena, such as 'On a thunder-storm: Written at Newmarket, on a Journey ', and are on occasion devotional, as with 'David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan versified'.

ESTC records copies at just three locations in the British Isles (BL, NLS, and Oxford), and a further seven in North America (Folger, Haverford, LCP, McMaster, Newberry, Otago, and Texas).