Presentation Copy to Gen. Richmond

War Lyrics and Other Poems.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

Price: $175.00


About the item

First Edition. viii, 243 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy to Gen. Richmond. Original purplish-brown cloth. A Very Good copy. Harris Collection, p.41.

Item #8386

Brownell, educated as a lawyer decided upon literature instead shortly after graduating. At the onset of the Civil War, he became a volunteer and rose through the ranks to become Admiral Farragut’s secretary.

This copy bears the following inscription: “Gen. Lewis C. Richmond/with the author’s compliments and regards.”.