Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect
Publisher: John Russell Smith
Published: 1862
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English language; Dialects; English Dialect poetry; Poetry
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Maggs Bros. William Barnes, 1801-86: the James Stevens-Cox collection, 92-95

Signature: R C A Prior (Richard Chandler Alexander Prior?); from the collection of James Stevens-Cox.

Signature: Reginald W. Thompson, 8 Argyll Road, Kensington, London (v.2 & 3); from the collection of James Stevens-Cox.

Armorial bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox (author of The history of the parishes of Old Sodbury and of Little Sodbury?) (v.1 & 2); bookplate: William George's Sons Ltd. booksellers (v.1 & 2); presentation inscription to Hugh Norris, from his wife and child, dated 1872 (v.3); folded sheet pasted to front endpaper, with ms. Christmas poem in an English dialect (v.3); bookplate: In memory of Hugh Norris, South Petherton from the Misses Bowen Feb. 1911 (v.3); signature: [???] H. Hoskyns (v.3); from the collection of James Stevens-Cox.

Signature: M[iss?] [f?]. a s. Daniel (v.1); inscription: Sarah C. Daniel Xmas 1867 ... from G. I. [D?]. (v. 2); from the collection of James Stevens-Cox.

Maggs Bros. cat., no. 92; v. 1, 3rd ed., 1862; v. 2, 2nd ed., 1863; v.3, 1st ed., 1862 [i.e. 1863]; each v. has 16 p. publisher's catalog bound in at end.

Maggs Bros. cat., no. 94; v.1, 4th ed., 1866; v.2, 2nd ed., 1863; v.3, 2nd ed., 1869 [i.e. 1870]; v.1 has [4] p. of publisher's advertisement bound in at end; v. 2 & 3 each have 56 p. publisher's catalog bound in at end.

Maggs Bros. cat., no. 95; v.1, 4th ed., 1866; v.2, 2nd ed., 1863; v.3, 2nd ed, 1869 [i.e. 1870]; all v. have 56 p. publisher's catalog bound in at end.

Maggs Bros. cat, no. 93; v. 1, 4th ed., 1866; v.2, 2nd ed., 1863; v.3, 1st ed., 1862 [i.e. 1863]; v. 1 & 2 have 16 p. publisher's catalog bound in at end; v. 3 has 56 p. publisher's catalog bound in at end.

Vol. 1: 3d ed., 1862; v. 2: 2d ed., 1863; v. 3 has added t.p.

v. 1-3 uniformly bound in original (faded) purple cloth, with binder's ticket of Bone & son; backstrips numbered I, II, and III.

v. 1-3 uniformly bound in original (faded) purple publisher's cloth; v. 1 & 3 have binder's ticket for Bone & son.

3 v. uniformly bound in original (faded) purple cloth; v. 1 & 2 have binder's ticket for Bone & son.

3 v. uniformly bound in original (faded) purple cloth; v, 1 & 3 have binder's tickets for Bone & son.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. First collection; title: v.2. Second collection; title: v.3. Third collection.