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Darton, publishers.- Bloomfield (Robert) The Fakenham Ghost a true Tale, first edition, engraved throughout on 16 leaves, rectos only, each with illustration and verses, original engraved pictorial wrappers, upper wrapper with title and vignette, lower with final illustration and verse, slightly soiled, [Darton H84 (1)], 16mo, W.Darton Junr., 1806. ⁂ An excellent copy of the scarce first edition of this tale from Bloomfield's Rural Poems of 1802. It is sometimes found hand-coloured but these generally seem to be later editions, and indeed the cross-hatched darkness and chiaroscuro of the engravings is surely seen to best effect in black and white.