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An electronic scholarly edition with introduction by Tim Fulford

This electronic edition comprises a facsimile and fully-edited transcription of the manuscript, sketch and scrapbooks made by Robert Bloomfield. This edition presents a rare surviving example of the kind of multimedia production that arose from one of the new cultural activities of the late eighteenth century — the picturesque and antiquarian tour. It comprises a facsimile of the manuscript sketch- and scrap-book that Robert Bloomfield made after his 1807 tour of the Wye, an annotated transcription of the prose tour-journal that he incorporated into his scrap book, and a collated and annotated text of the poetic versions of the tour that were published (as The Banks of Wye) in 1811, 1813, and 1823. Also included are reproductions of the engravings that illustrated the 1811 and 1813 publications, deleted or unadopted passages from the manuscript of the poem, and a selection of reviews from journals of the time. Edited by Tim Fulford, who also wrote the introduction, this edition offers a searchable archive of texts of the Romantic era, enhanced by technology made possible in an online environment.