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.

RACK, EDMUND.

Published by Bath : R. Cruttwell for the author sold by C. Dilly J. Dodsley J. Phillipst London and elsewhere, 1781

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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. Seller Inventory # 28317

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Title: Essays, letters, and poems by Edmund Rack, ...

Publisher: Bath : R. Cruttwell for the author sold by C. Dilly J. Dodsley J. Phillipst London and elsewhere

Publication Date: 1781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good