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Gilbert; or True Love rewarded: an amatory rural poem. [By J. Templeman. Illustrated

TEMPLEMAN, James. · 1809 · Sherwood · 17 pictures

A narrative rural love poem by James Templeman, published in London by Sherwood in 1809 for readers of sentimental verse, with seventeen wood-engraved vignettes. The cuts show barn, cottage-hearth and woodland scenes in dense cross-hatching, with small figures in Regency dress, cooking fires, hay, and moonlit or sunlit water glimpsed through overhanging trees.

British Library · HMNTS 11642.g.37. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)