50 will be large paper, bound in boards, 8 × 11, untrimmed edges, gilt
top, special paper. $5.00.
_Postage extra on each._
The printing will be from type, distributed as soon as the work has
been done, and this edition will never be duplicated.
II.—THE POEMS OF EDWARD COATE PINKNEY. With a biographical sketch of
of the poet, by Eugene L. Didier, author of a “Life of Edgar A.
Poe,” “Life of Madame Bonaparte,” etc. The original edition of these
poems is now one of the rarest items of Americana. It was published
in 1825, and won the admiration of the chief American critics, Poe
among them, who pronounced Pinkney to be “the first of American
lyrists,” and his poem, “_A Health_,” (of which I give two verses
herewith) “especially beautiful—full of spirit and brilliancy.”