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Heart Melodies: for storm and sunshine. From Cliftonia the Beautiful. (The Poet's Autobiography.)

GABBITASS, Peter. · 1885 · P. Gabbitass · 4 pictures

A self-published book of devotional and local verse with the author's autobiography, written and issued by Peter Gabbitass at Clifton, Bristol, in 1885 for subscribers and neighbours. Wood-engraved vignettes show churches, a round tower, a castellated tower among trees, and the Clifton Suspension Bridge above the Avon, plus an oval bust portrait of the poet and his daughter; useful for small vignette frames, stipple skies and foliage textures.

British Library · HMNTS 11652.k.17. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)