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INSCRIBED, WITH A CORRECTION MOORE, CLEMENT C. Poems. 8vo, publisher's brown boards with paper spine label, water spots on front cover, much of spine missing, affecting last few letters of label; dampstain affecting top margin of most signatures, few signatures sprung and loose. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844
inscribed and signed by moore "with the best wishes of the author" to family member Faustina Hodges who was his first cousin Sarah's step-daughter. Faustina's father was the famed organist Edward Hodges of Trinity Church in New York City. Page 159 contains Moore's poem "The Organist" written for Edward. The inscription appears on the half-title, is dated January 1st, 1845 and, on the verso, Moore has indicated that the misspelled word "autumal" on page 58 line 13 should read "autumnal."
this work also contains the definitive version of moore's famous poem "a visit from st. nicholas." Its first appearance in an anthology of Moore's own verse, and thus his first public acknowledgment of authorship. He wrote the poem in 1822 as a Christmas gift for his children. A house guest copied it in the fall of 1823, and later sent her copy to the editor of the Troy N.Y. Sentinel, where it was first published anonymously, December 23, 1823. It first appeared between covers in the New Brunswick, N.J. Almanack for 1825 and was printed anonymously in various readers and anthologies until this publication. BAL 14348; Marshall 27.
