Poems dedicated without permission, to John Bull
By: by a bird at Bromsgrove ; volume the first, perhaps the last
Contributors: Crane & son, booksellers
Edition: The fifth edition, with the addition of forty pages.
Publisher: Printed for Crane & son, booksellers, Bromsgrove, by G. Nicholson, Stourport.
Published: 1816
Place of publication: Bromsgrove]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: English poetry; Poetry
Notes: Authorship and date from BLC.

Signatures: pi⁴ (-pi4) 1⁶ chi1 2⁶ 3-4⁸ 5-7⁶ 2chi1 8⁸ [9]⁶ 3chi1 12⁸ 13⁶ 12⁸ 14-15⁸ 16⁶ 17-19⁸.

Chainlines are horizontal.

Text and pagination are continuous.

The frontispiece is a folded leaf containing an elaborate advertisement, a poem in the shape of a pyramid, with engraved headpiece of I. Crane Bromsgrove. The poem begins: I try, & mean to gain, one more friend, that will spend, his money free, and deal with me; Fancy form'd the scheme, and I chiefly aim, at this to make my verse, sink deep into your purse ....

2nd leaf of plates is an engraved ill., with 4 lines of verse, to accompany "The Apron farmer".

Several of the poems relate to Bromsgrove.

BLC, LXXII, p. 155

Johnson, C.R.  Provincial poetry, 1789-1839, 227

Jackson, J. R. de J.  Annals of English verse, 1770-1835, p. 401