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FRENEAU, PHILIP. The Poems of . . . Written Chiefly during the Late War. 8vo, later 1/2 calf gilt, rubbed; preliminaries browned, scattered foxing, title-page with one neat contemporary owner's signature and another with attempted erasure, abrading leaf, pencil lines on contents pages. Philadelphia; Bailey, 1786
first edition. Issue on thick paper, the text block measuring almost one inch thick. This is the first collected edition of his writings, including many poems relating to the Revolutionary War as well as American Indians. "Unquestionably he was the most significant poetic figure in America before Bryant"--DAB. Sabin 25897; Evans 19698; Wegelin 168; BAL 6435.
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