Joseph Rodman Drake Culprit Fay

Drake, Joseph Rodman. THE CULPRIT FAY AND OTHER POEMS, 1847

Hardcover Good with no dust jacket Early Reprint 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages; Chipped spine

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Drake, Joseph Rodman: CULPRIT FAY AND OTHER POEMS, New York The Grolier Club 1923
Limited to 300 copies. One of a series of six books designed by famous printers for the Eminent American Printers Series sponsored by the Grolier Club. This book was designed by Walter Gilliss. Minor cover soiling; two private bookplates stamped "withdrawn."

tall 8vo., parchment backed boards, top edge gilt, others uncut. xv, 49 pages.

[SW: Book Design United States GILLISS, WALTER EMINENT PRINTERS SERIES]

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Drake, Joseph Rodman: Culprit Fay, the: A Poem, George W. Carleton 1866
Good ++ Lumley, Arthur

Hardcover. Hand-tooled leather with gilt inlay. Front endpapers loose. the remaining pages seem unlikely to follow suit. heavy bond gold-edged pages are foxed and occasionally blemished. 100 beautiful engravings embroider the verse. Some of the early pages have suffered from an apparent food spill. Gift inscription dated 1866 on endpaper. leather in shelfworn in a square pattern around the edges of the cover, as well as spine, aside from that the leather is still quite attractive. "The exquisite poem of "the Culprit Fay" was composed hastily among the Highlands of the Hudson, in the summer of 1819. The author was walking with some friends on a warm, moonlit evening, when of the party remarked that it would be difficult to write a faery poem, purely imaginative, without aid of human characters. The party was reassembled two or three days afterwards and (the poem) was read to them, nearly as it is now printed." (From an advertisement in the front of the book.) No DJ Leather

[SW: POETRY; 1819; DRAKE; LUMLEY]

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Drake, Joseph Rodman. The Culprit of Fay and Other Poems. New York, New York: George Dearborn, 1835
frontispiece and two titles pages one illus. with engraving of the Hudson River at West Point--first edition--BAL 4825--84p.--cloth--gold design on front and rear covers--some foxing thru--out covers are chipped and worn at ends of spine has a small attractive bookplate with artist's intials G.D.F..

First Edition, Cloth,

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