(NEW YORK) [Wilson Alexander] The Foresters A Poem Descripti

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(NEW YORK.) [Wilson, Alexander.] The Foresters: A Poem, Descriptive of a Pedestrian Journey to the Falls of Niagara, in the Autumn of 1804. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, moderate wear; lacking half-title and front free endpaper, moderate foxing, wear to first few leaves; early owner's inscriptions on title page and elsewhere, numbered tag on front pastedown. Newtown, PA, June 1818

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first edition, first issue with the month of June in the imprint. The copyright notice is printed on verso. First published serially in the Portfolio in 1809. Possibly the earliest English-language verse description of Niagara Falls by an eye-witness (Dow, Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls, pages 697-9). Sabin 104559; only one other copy known at auction since 1960 (Swann, 10 February 2005, lot 353).