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[RICHMOND, JAMES C.]. A Midsummer's Day-Dream: Libellous; or, a Little Book of the Vision of Shawmut. By Admonish Crime. (Anagramatically.) Libell. I. Boston: Jordan & Wiley; New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co , August 1847. 1st ed. 8vo. 24 pp. Woodcut frontis. of the author, from a Daguerreotype. Orig. printed wraps. Some wrinkling & soiling of wraps. $125.00

 

Wright I, 2118a. Sabin 71137. One of several works on religion and poetry written by the Presbyter of Rhode Island to prove that Boston was a slave to mammon, and never actually converted to Christianity. Within a few years Richmond was confined to the McLean Asylum for the Insane in Somerville, Mass. Inscribed in presentation by "the writer" on the title, dated Aug. 6, 1847.