[FORE?EDGE PAINTING]. ???[TAYLOR AND HESSEY]. CLARE, John (1793?1864). Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. London: for Taylor and Hessey; and E. Drury, 1821. 8vo (165 x 102 mm). Contemporary straight?grain morocco with gilt fillets and rococo style enantiomorphs gilt, spine in 4 compartments with 3 raised bands, gilt?lettering and palmettes in compartments, all edges, concealing a DOUBLE FORE?EDGE PAINTING of Helpstone Parish Church and Peterborough from Burghley Park, BLINDSTAMP?SIGNED ON FRONT FLYLEAF BY TAYLOR AND HESSEY (light rubbing along joints). Provenance: John Hadmar Sticht (bookplate), a bibliophile; Saint Mary?of?the?Woods College Library (bookplate and embossed stamp on title?page); Susanna Anbert (signature). An interesting association copy between publisher John Taylor and the author John Clare. ?In 1819, through his cousin Edward Drury, a bookseller in Stamford, he was introduced to John Clare of Helpston in Northamptonshire. He polished Clare?s grammar and spelling for publication? (Royal Academy).