KETTEL, SAMUEL. EDITOR. Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices. Boston: S.G. Goodrich & Co., 1829. 3 volumes. 8vo (195 x 123 mm). Publisher's purple muslin-backed boards, paper spine labels. Losses to spine labels, volume II spine loose, some splitting of hinges and text blocks. Provenance: C. Cutler (owner's inscription, dated 1830). FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BINDING OF THE FIRST BOOK TO MENTION A WORK BY EDGAR ALLEN POE. This extensive collection brought together the works of 188 early American poets, many of them obscure and unknown, including some statesmen not generally thought of as poets. Included are works by W.C. Bryant, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Francis Scott Key, as well as Benjamin Franklin and John Adams At the back of volume III is a Catalogue of American Poetry listing works that have "... come under notice in the course of this undertaking," which includes Tamerlane and Other Poems, credited to "A Bostonian." Poe published the book of ten poems anonymously in 1827, in a print run of only 50 copies.
KETTEL, SAMUEL. EDITOR. Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices. Boston: S.G. Goodrich & Co., 1829. 3 volumes. 8vo (195 x 123 mm). Publisher's purple muslin-backed boards, paper spine labels. Losses to spine labels, volume II spine loose, some splitting of hinges and text blocks. Provenance: C. Cutler (owner's inscription, dated 1830). FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BINDING OF THE FIRST BOOK TO MENTION A WORK BY EDGAR ALLEN POE. This extensive collection brought together the works of 188 early American poets, many of them obscure and unknown, including some statesmen not generally thought of as poets. Included are works by W.C. Bryant, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Francis Scott Key, as well as Benjamin Franklin and John Adams At the back of volume III is a Catalogue of American Poetry listing works that have "... come under notice in the course of this undertaking," which includes Tamerlane and Other Poems, credited to "A Bostonian." Poe published the book of ten poems anonymously in 1827, in a print run of only 50 copies.
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