Samuel KETTELL
Specimens of American poetry, with critical and biographical notices
S. G. Goodrich and co|Boston 1829|11.50 x 18.70 cm|3 volumes reliés
Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices
S. G. Goodrich and Co | Boston 1829
| 12mo (11.5 x 18.7 cm) | xlviii | 353 pp and x | 408 pp and x | 406 pp | half shagreen
First edition.
Bound in half red shagreen coated on the corners. Spine in beautifully decorated compartments. Gilt title and volume labels. Gilt edges. Fillets on the boards. Two slight signs of wearing on the upper board of volume 1. Very beautiful copy.
Very important anthology of American poets from the beginning to the contemporary era with Longfellow and others.
The catalogue of American poetry lists all of the published editions (the first American poetic bibliography), including Tamerlane by Edgar Poe (By a Bostonian) published in 1827; it was obviously too early for the latter to be recorded.
S. G. Goodrich and Co | Boston 1829
| 12mo (11.5 x 18.7 cm) | xlviii | 353 pp and x | 408 pp and x | 406 pp | half shagreen
First edition.
Bound in half red shagreen coated on the corners. Spine in beautifully decorated compartments. Gilt title and volume labels. Gilt edges. Fillets on the boards. Two slight signs of wearing on the upper board of volume 1. Very beautiful copy.
Very important anthology of American poets from the beginning to the contemporary era with Longfellow and others.
The catalogue of American poetry lists all of the published editions (the first American poetic bibliography), including Tamerlane by Edgar Poe (By a Bostonian) published in 1827; it was obviously too early for the latter to be recorded.
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