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1782008700London: T. Davies 1782. Uncommon in today's market in any edition. 6 1/2" h. xvi 136 frontispiece engraved portrait. Bound in full contemporary calf red morocco label back the armorial bookplate of Andrew Berkeley Drummond. Very Good front joint cracked yet still holding thanks to an old cloth tape mend light toning to end papers internal pages clean and fresh. John Wilmot second Earl of Rochester and Baron of Adderbury in England Viscount Athlone in Ireland 1647-1680 was a poet rakish wit and notorious figure in the court of King Charles II. . Later Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. T. Davies Hardcover books
179327050Litchfield CT: Printed by Collier and Buel 1793 1793. First edition state A. Stoddard & Whitesell 448; Wegelin 489; Evans 25104; BAL 4976 Dunlap & 5046 Dwight. Front blank and rear free endpaper lacking; some foxing and stains; a very good copy. 8vo contemporary sheep gilt rules spine label gone but still bearing the impression of the lettering. 6-page list of subscribers and errata. The first anthology of American poetry; a second volume was planned but never published. Smith 1771-1798 a physician and author who died at 28 of yellow fever was an active member of the "Hartford Wits" literary group and a close associate of the American novelist Charles Brockden Brown who was living with Smith in Litchfield when this anthology of 70 poems was compiled. Modern scholarship has placed Brown among the contributors of anonymous poems specifically as the author of "Utrum Horum Mavis Elige" on pages 222-224. Other contributors include William Trumbull Theodore Dwight Joel Barlow David Humphreys William Dunlap Richard Alsop and Philip Freneau. <br/><br/> Litchfield, (CT): Printed by Collier and Buel, [1793] unknown books
