Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CULLEN BRYANT, WILLIAM. The Embargo: or, Sketches of the Times. 8vo, late 19th-century burgundy crushed morocco, front cover detached, turn-ins, by Bradstreet's; original plain blue wrappers bound in, bookplates on front pastedown and front free endpaper, with the preliminary advertisement dated February, 1809. Boston: Printed for the author, 1809

Additional Details

second edition, corrected and enlarged. This edition followed the excessively rare (two copies known to survive) first edition, that contained just the title poem, published as a pamphlet in 1808. BAL 1583.