MOSDELL (J.): The Village of Mortimer and Other Poems. , Reading: Printed at the "Reading Observer" Steam Printing Works, 1891;

1st ed., pp. xii, 189. Photog. portrait frontis. and photog. view of Mortimer church. Orig. dk green cloth. Covers damp mottled but not obtrusively so. Title page partly detached but still holding, o/w a good copy. No half-title but none appears called for. The author confesses that his poems are the 'musings of one whose education was of the most elementary character possible;... He began work at the early age of eight years, and beyond the alphabet and acquiring a knowledge of the fact that two and two make four, has no distinct recollection of having learned anything during the few years it was his privilege to attend school.' Scarce. (Book ref. 4014)  £36.00

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