Poems.
New York: E[lam] Bliss, 1832.
Price: $400.00
About the item
First edition. 240 pp. 8vo. Publisher's muslin-backed boards, paper spine label. Light wear to covers, small snag to spine label, foxing to covers and sporadically to text, binding cracked at title-page, early ownership signature on front free endpaper. In a custom brown morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. BAL 1603. Provenance: Mrs. J. Insley Blair (her green morocco Blairhame booklabel).
Item #306127
Bryant's third book, following the extremely rare self-published juvenalia Embargo (1808) and his slim first collection, Poems (1821). This edition contains works from the 1821 Poems — including "Thanatopsis" and "To a Waterfowl" — as well as newer poems. “Most of the following poems have been already printed … In preparing them for press, [Bryant] has made such corrections as occurred to him on subjecting them to a careful revision” (Preface).
