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MP3 Audio CD. An Autumn Invitation Capern began to write verse for the "Poet's Corner" of the North Devon Journal. His occasional poems soon struck popular fancy and were in great request at county gatherings. In 1856, William Frederick Rock of Barnstaple procured him a body of subscribers. Collected and published by subscription in 1856, it received warm praise from the reviews and from many distinguished people. Poems, by Edward Capern, was followed by Ballads and Songs (1858), The Devonshire Melodist (a collection of the author's songs, some of them to his own music) and Wayside Warbles (1865), and resulted in a civil list pension being granted to him by Lord Palmerston. His later work Sungleams and Shadows was published in 1881. In retirement, in his sixties, Capern and his wife moved to Harborne (near Birmingham) to live closer to their son. Capern returned to Devonshire about 1884 and settled at Braunton, near Bideford in North Devon. He was greatly shocked by his wife's death in… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. An Autumn Invitation Capern began to write verse for the "Poet's Corner" of the North Devon Journal. His occasional poems soon struck popular fancy and were in great request at county gatherings. In 1856, William Frederick Rock of Barnstaple procured him a body of subscribers. Collected and published by subscription in 1856, it received warm praise from the reviews and from many distinguished people. Poems, by Edward Capern, was followed by Ballads and Songs (1858), The Devonshire Melodist (a collection of the author's songs, some of them to his own music) and Wayside Warbles (1865), and resulted in a civil list pension being granted to him by Lord Palmerston. His later work Sungleams and Shadows was published in 1881. In retirement, in his sixties, Capern and his wife moved to Harborne (near Birmingham) to live closer to their son. Capern returned to Devonshire about 1884 and settled at Braunton, near Bideford in North Devon. He was greatly shocked by his wife's death in… Read More

Third Edition London: W. Kent and Co, 1859 Good+. no dj. green boards with blind-stamped detailing showing as a tad grubby - with rounded corners and some tarnish points. gilt titiling to spine is readable but dulled. both ends of the spine are rolled and crushed, but no loss. all pages present. no inscriptions or marginalia

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Second Edition, with Additions. London: David Bogue, 1856.. xii + 215pp, original cloth, partly faded, shaken with one section of text loosening, private library label to front pastedown, and rear board, small portion missing from foot of spine, head of spine rubbed, lacks front endpaper. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e- mail for a FREE copy, they include DEVON - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

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