1825 Full leather, Poems of Bernard Barton. This has a worn tree calf binding… it has been well loved, but the binding is tight and its held together well.
Bernard Barton was known as the Quaker poet. His main works included The Convict's Appeal (1818), in which he protested against the death penalty and the severity of the criminal code. Barton became friends with Southey, Lamb, and other men or women of letters, including the local children's writer Anne Knight, with whom he lodged, while providing poems for some of her books. The severity of the criminal code, and Household Verses published1845, came to the notice of Sir R. Peel, through whom he obtained a pension of £100 a year. Other volumes of his were entitled Napoleon and Other Poems (1822), Poetic Vigils (1824) and A New Year's Eve and Other Poems.
