Item #95255 American Poems Selected and Original Vol. 1. Elihu Hubbard Smith, compiler.

American Poems Selected and Original Vol. 1

Litchfield: Collier and Buel, n.d. (1793). Hardcover. 304p. plus (7)p. List of Subscribers and (1)p. Errata. Contemporary leather (probably original). 19 cm. Extremities including joints rather heavily rubbed. Splitting at top of front joint and threatening at top of rear joint. Front cover lightly warped. Foxing throughout text. Former owner's name ("Roger Whittlesey 1794") on front free endpaper. Preface dated 1793. Whittlesey, the former owner, seems likely to have been the Whittlesey who was a graduate of Yale University and spent his adult life as a lawyer in Southbury, Ct. Good. Item #95255

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