G. P. R. Pulman, Dialect Poetry, East Devon

An interesting lot sold at auction by Bonhams, 10 November 2009.

PULMAN (GEORGE PHILIP RIGNEY) Vade Mecum of Fly-fishing for Trout; Being a Concise Practical Treatise on that Branch of the Art of Angling, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY.

Sold for £1,020 inc. premium.

A number of "East Devon" dialect poems were published in the Sherborne Journal from 1840.

Pulman, from Aminster, wrote at one point (1st May, 1842; 1842 edition of Rustic Sketches) that his dialect poetry was written in "a sort of medium brogue between the broad Somerset and Dorset, without much tinge of the pure Devon".

George Pulman also wrote as Piscator.

Rustic Sketches: Being Rhymes on Angling and Other Subjects Illustrative of Rural Life, Etc. (1853)

View online here (Hathi Trust)

Online Books by G. P. R. Pulman

Past Posting, Christmas Poem