Brent Knoll. YEATMAN (The Rev. Harry Farr).

HEAVILY EDITED IN MANUSCRIPT

A Poem. Published in 1817 and Republished in 1859.

Second Edition. 8vo. [178 x 110 x 8 mm]. [2]ff, 62, 24 pp. Original binding by Westleys & Co (with their label inside rear cover) of green cloth, the covers with a blind border and the front lettered in gilt within a gilt block, brown endleaves with printed advertisements. (Minor staining, and paper manuscript label attached to spine).
London: [printed by Spottiswoode and Co. for] Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859.

With 24pp of advertisements for Longman at the end. There is also a tipped-in and folded sheet of Orders for the Somerset Volunteer Regiment, dated 4th August 1916. Brent Knoll is a village and hill on the Somerset Levels, roughly mid-way between Weston-Super-Mare and Bridgwater and close to the coast. First published at Sherborne in 1817, and republished in London in 1859. Cambridge University also claims to have a London edition of 1860.

With the booklabel of George A. F. Pope and copious neat notes throughout the text in ink and pencil. Some are observational, naming locations or updating spellings, but the majority are grammatical, many adding or subtracting punctuation marks. Pope may just have been pedantic or was he editing for a subsequent edition?

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