The American Common-Place Book of Poetry, with occasional notes
Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1832. Very Good-. Item #25891
Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1832. Reprint. 12mo; contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine; 405,[1]pp.; engraved frontispiece (tissue guard). Leather rather scuffed, especially at corners, marbled paper toned at extremities, front free endpaper separated but present, contemporary armorial ex libris to front pastedown of a G. Washington Warren, along with 20th century ownership rubberstamp to the same. Overall Good to Very Good.
Includes poetry by a young Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edward Everett, and many others, as well as William Lloyd Garrison's poem "To the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, on reading his eloquent speech in Defense of Indian Rights" (p. 201).
AMERICAN IMPRINTS 11730.
Price: $50.00