Lot No: 8054

George Crabbe: 'The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With his letters and journals, and his life, by his son', London, John Murray, 1834, 8 volumes, each with engraved frontis and added engraved title page as called for; plus 'Life of The Rev. George Crabbe, LLB by his son', Murray, 1838, new edition, 15 engraved plates, rebound uniform quarter calf (9). George Crabbe (1754-1832), known as Aldeburgh's Poet, was educated at Bungay and later Stowmarket, was married in Beccles and for 13 years had a living as a clergyman in Parham, Great Glemham and Rendham, eventually gaining poetic fame and capturing the imagination of his peers with his ''realistic narrative poetry'' based on the middle and working classes of the time

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