CLARE, John.

The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems.

London: Taylor and Hessey, and E. Drury, 1821. First edition, two volumes bound in one, 8vo, (iii)-xxviii, 216, (iii-viii), 211, (1) pp, bound without the half titles and 4 pp of advertisements at the end of volume II. Frontispiece portrait of the poet, engraved by Scriven after the portrait by William Hilton, contemporary signature to fly leaf, later bookplate of Roy McGregor. Uncut in the original boards, marked and a little worn, neatly rebacked retaining the original paper spine label. Clare's second book. Item #50508

Price: £450.00