Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, in Concord, Mass.

Concord [Massachusetts]: Printed by Benjamin Tolman, 1867.

Price: $350.00


About the item

First edition. 75 pages, illustrated with an original frontispiece photograph by A. H. Folson (mounted albumen photograph, measuring 4 1/4 by 3 inches, depicting the Soldier's Monument, in the Concord town center). 12mo. Original blue glazed paper wrappers. Myerson D67; BAL 5254 note; Sabin 55089.

Item #339013

The text includes the first appearance of a twenty-four page "Address" by Ralph Waldo Emerson pp. 27-52 [Myerson D67; BAL 5254 note], and prints the text of a letter from Civil War soldier, Charles Bartlett, to his father, written during the war, along with a list of the 32 soldiers from Concord who died in the Civil war, an untitled poem by F. B. Sanborn, and contributions by George S. Boutwell, Colonel Parker, Colonel Lucius B. Marsh, Sampson Mason and others.