THE ARTIZAN POET OF NOTTINGHAM AND THE BURNS OF SHERWOOD FOREST - THE SONNETS AND SONGS
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Book Description
Size 8vo, 15.5 x 13cm.
Bound in original elaborately gilt decorated green cloth, bevelled edges, in fine condition.
All edges gilt.
Lovely original floral endpapers, front with period booksellers ticket ‘Garrick & Young, The Poultry, Nottingham’
Text in fine condition, no inscriptions, title printed in red and black, frontispiece of a Sherwood Forest Oak named after him, attractive headpieces.
Edited by John Potter Briscoe.
Dealer Notes
Robert Millhouse (1788-1839) born in Nottingham.
His only education was at a Sunday school and from the age of 10 he worked at a stocking-loom and sang in the choir of St. Peter’s church.
Contemporaneously compared to Robert Bloomfield and John Clare.
His life was affected by his serial marriages, ill-health and poverty.
His only education was at a Sunday school and from the age of 10 he worked at a stocking-loom and sang in the choir of St. Peter’s church.
Contemporaneously compared to Robert Bloomfield and John Clare.
His life was affected by his serial marriages, ill-health and poverty.
Author
Millhouse, Robert
Date
1881
Binding
Green Cloth Gilt
Publisher
Nottingham, Norris & Cokayne, The Poultry.
Illustrator
-
Condition
Fine
Pages
xx, 91pp
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