HUDSON, William. The Life of John Holland of Sheffield Park. From Numerous Letters and Other Documents Furnished by his Nephew and Executor, John Holland Brammall.
“He was still most assiduously courting the muses, he did his daily portion of manual work in the garret, as he sat in solitude of his study, and as he wandered in the fields and lanes of the neighbourhood, with little or no desire to know more of “the haunts of busy men”.
8 illustrations as called for (including of Sheffield Manor Lodge, Abbey Gateway, Worksop and The Mount- Sheffield).
Interior: Occasional, sporadic foxing and spotting, text block splitting in places, spotting to endpapers.
Exterior: Publisher’s red plum coloured cloth, upper board ruled in gilt (wear and fading to cloth, marks to cloth, corners bumped).
8vo. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874.
John Holland (1794-1872) was an English poet, newspaper editor (Sheffield Iris and lately with the Sheffield Mercury) , writer on botany and local topographer. His works include a topographical poem on Sheffield Park and a book about the history of shoes and shoemakers. Earlier on in his life he was a Sunday School Teacher. His local history books include: A Tour of the Don (1823) and The History, Antiquities, and Description of the Town and Parish of Worksop (1826).
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