first edition
1856 · Boston
by McELROY, E[lbridge] P[ackard]
Boston: William White Printer, 1856. First Edition. Small 12mo (17cm.); publisher's tan card wrappers printed within double rule; 31pp. Wrappers a bit worn at extremities, upper wrapper nearly separated, faint dampstain at bottom edge of rear cover not bleeding into textblock, else Good or better, internally fresh. Long poem originally read at the Association's earliest meeting. The Association was incorporated that same year by McElroy, Robert Vose Jr., and Owen B. Brigham, for the purposes of "diffusing and promoting general knowledge to the town of Dorchester [Mass.]" ("Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts (1856), p. 23). (Inventory #: 45538)