Samuel Kettell. SPECIMENS OF AMERICAN POETRY, WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 3 vols. (complete). Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829. Hardcover. Leather bound with red labels and gilt on spine. 12mo; xlviii, 353; x, 408; x, 406pp.

7 3/16 x 4 5/8 in. each

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

This important anthology includes the work of poets such as Cotton Mather, William Cullen Bryant, Longfellow, and many others. The Catalogue of American Poetry at the end of vol. 3 lists "Tamerlane, and other poems, by a Bostonian. Boston, 1827" (p. 405) which is a reference to Edgar Allen Poe's first published work.

Light scuffing and staining to leather, general rubbing at corners, joints, and head and tail of spine, edgewear, vol. 1 with some loss to leather at head of spine and severe cracking at joint with partial separation of front cover, vols. 2 and 3 very sturdy; foxing and light toning and offsetting to interiors, otherwise clean and unmarked, vol. 2 with corner loss to front free endpaper, vol. 3 front free endpaper loose. Good condition overall.