"The Diverting History Of John Gilpin" COWPER, WM. Seashells Millbrook Press

Millbrook Press

Art Sz: 31 3/8"H x 30"W

is the artist's first retrospective monograph

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"The Diverting History Of John Gilpin" COWPER, WM. Seashells Millbrook PressCOWPER, WM. [31] pp. Frederick Warne And Co. Ltd. 9 1 4" x 8 1 4" w drawings by R. Caldecott The Diverting History of John Gilpin Shewing how he went Farther than he intended, and came safe Home again is a comic ballad by William Cowper written in 1782. The ballad concerns a draper called John Gilpin who rides a runaway horse. Cowper heard the story from Lady Anna Austen at a time of severe depression, and it cheered him up so much that he put it into