Sheffield Park: A Descriptive Poem, John Holland — New Annotated Edition

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Sheffield Park: A Descriptive Poem, John Holland — New Annotated Edition

Name: Sheffield Park: A Descriptive Poem, John Holland — New Annotated Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 4471
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Publication: Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford, 1859

Formatting: 8vo, pp. xii, 61.

Condition Report: Good. The original blind-stamped publisher's cloth boards remain structurally sound but exhibit noticeable signs of handling and age. The extremities are rubbed, with short chips and fraying to the spine ends and lightly bumped corners. Both boards display scattered dark spotting and discolouration, most prominently a rather pronounced dark liquid stain to the lower quadrant of the rear board. The internal binding remains secure, though the endpapers show standard age-toning and isolated soiling. The text block is largely clean, with only occasional scattered foxing and minor handling marks commensurate with a provincial imprint of this era.

Catalogue Note: This 1859 "New Annotated Edition" constitutes the first edition thus, featuring a fresh preface, new dedication, and expanded annotations by the author not found in earlier printings. Originally published earlier in the century, Holland’s pastoral verse explores the landscape and heritage of the region, capturing local history before the height of Victorian industrialisation.

The front free endpaper bears a charmingly specific 19th-century ownership inscription in graphite: "William Hooke, 33 Bond St, Crookesmoor, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England," physically rooting this copy in the very city it celebrates. Copies of this provincial imprint are genuinely scarce on the open market, particularly in their unsophisticated original cloth bindings.

A lyrical and historically rich tribute to the landscapes of Yorkshire, John Holland's Sheffield Park offers readers a poetic window into the early 19th-century English countryside. This scarce 1859 annotated edition, augmented with the author's own explanatory notes, serves as both a literary achievement and a valuable topographic record of Sheffield before the dramatic transformations of the Industrial Revolution. A wonderful survivor of provincial Victorian publishing.

Book Condition: Good

Book Authors: John Holland

Book Publisher: Pawson and Brailsford

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Antiquarian

Genre: Poetry

Book edition:

Signed: No

Book Pages: 73

Book Publication Year: 1859

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Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: Sheffield, United Kingdom

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