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American Female Poets: with Biographical and Critical Notices.

May, Caroline.

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848.

First edition. 4to. Original dark blue cloth with bold gilt strapwork designs and illustration of an urn with an angel of both covers and spine. Frontispiece and ten full-page tissue-guarded steel engravings, mostly of portraits of the poets. An important contemporary compendium of such luminous poets as: Anne Bradstreet, Mary Heweitt, Phillis Wheatley, Lydia Sigourney, Sarah Whitman, Maria Lowell, Alice Neal and Alice and Phebe Carey. AEG. Head and foot of spine with tears, corners chipped, foxing. Very scarce.

Price: $350.00Item #307