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KETTELL, SAMUEL (Ed.). Specimens of American Poetry, With Critical and Biographical Notices. In Three Volumes. Boston: S. G. Goodrich, 1829. 1st ed. 12mo. 48, 353; 10, 408; 10, 406 pp. Orig. muslin backed plain boards, paper labels on spines. Uncut. Some chipping & wear of spines, but quite good. Lib. stamps on endpapers, but text clean. Large engraved early bookplate in each volume of Erasmus Hall, engraved by Maverick. $525.00
Shoemaker 39194. Only edition of the first comprehensive anthology of native American verse, with the work of 190 poets, ranging from Cotton Mather to Bryant, Longfellow and Whittier. Pp. 377-406 contain the first "catalogue of American poetry, "including in its chronological listing, Poe's Tamerlane, but without attribution of authorship.