[Davies Gilbert]. 'A Cornish Cantata'. Broadside, 270mm x 22...

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[Davies Gilbert]. 'A Cornish Cantata'. Broadside, 270mm x 22cm, printed vertically, drop head title, one verse in English above eight verses in Cornish, the Kernewek names of places being arranged in the form of verses, no imprint, but Boase & Courtney refer to this being issued from Gilbert's Private Press at Eastbourne, n.d. but circa 1826. 'Manuscript Verses Framed and Preserved at the Place House Mayfield...St Dunstan...,' half 4to sheet on thick laid paper, six four-line stanzas, and a closing prose paragraph, Sold at the Place for Six Pence Each, no imprint and no date. (2)