The Borough: A Poem In Twenty Four Letters - 1810 & 1812 Complete 2 Volume Set (179 Pages + 211 Pages)
Poems by The Rev. George Crabbe - 1812 - Volume 2 Only Of A 2 Volume Set (223 Pages)
By The Rev. George Crabbe
Printed for J. Hatchard: London
"This finely bound early-19th-century group brings together key poetic works by The Rev. George Crabbe (1754-1832), one of the most important English poets of social realism. The centrepiece is The Borough: A Poem, in Twenty-Four Letters, offered here as a complete two-volume set, comprising Volume I (Third Edition, 1810) and Volume II (Fourth Edition, 1812), printed for J. Hatchard of Piccadilly, bookseller to Her Majesty. The Borough is widely regarded as Crabbe's masterpiece, presenting an unflinching, vividly observed portrait of life in a provincial English seaside town, drawing directly on his own experiences in Aldeburgh and marking a decisive break from the sentimental conventions of earlier Georgian verse.
Complementing this is Volume II only of Poems by George Crabbe, Sixth Edition, 1812, also printed for J. Hatchard. This volume contains many of Crabbe's most celebrated narrative and descriptive poems, works that earned him the admiration of contemporaries such as Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron for their moral seriousness, psychological insight, and exacting realism. Although lacking its companion volume, this standalone second volume remains a desirable period printing in its own right, particularly when encountered in original matching bindings.
All volumes are preserved in original fine full leather bindings, richly gilt with decorative panels and spine tooling, and present as an attractive, uniform early-19th-century shelf set. The bindings are sound and well-preserved, with expected light rubbing and age-toning, while the text blocks remain clean and crisp for their age. Together, these volumes form an excellent representation of Crabbe's mature poetic achievement and early 19th-century English book production, appealing strongly to collectors of English literature, Romantic-era poetry, and finely bound Regency-period books."
