Essays, letters, and poems by Edmund Rack, Secretary To the Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.Author Of Mentor's Letters To Youth.

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8vo, pp xxxii [including half title and subscrribers], 364, [2, adverts], bound in contemporary plain calf, black label, cracked to upper joint, weak and re-inforced internally, minor foxing, else text very clean and tight, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, of Rack's poems and essyas, mainly reprinted from periodicals, many of the poems from his volume of verse published in 1775. From a Quaker background, Rack rose from shopkeeper to member of the Bath intelligemcier, with a special interest in education and farming. His list of subscribers includes Sir John Herschel but not the two early owners of this copy - David Holt and Jane Ellwood. N° de ref. del artículo 28317

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