Published by London J Moyes, 1832
Seller: J & S WILBRAHAM, LONDON, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo, pp 24, with 2 lithographed views - Bonham Park and Sparsholt Place - bound in neat modern quarter calf, spine gilt titled, manuscript key to the personages in the poem, 28 in all, on an additional leaf at the end, as in the BL copy, these references hand numbered in the poem, upper printed wrapper laid into front paste-down, light foxing at the start but a fine copy, FIRST EDITION, based upon a Robin Hood legend this privately printed anonymous poem commemorates the alternate meetings of an archery club at Benham and Sparsholt. According to Martin [235] 250 copies were printed, but it is doubtful whether the all important full page manuscript key to the personages was included in many copies.