Aquidneck; a poem. Pronounced on the hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the Redwood Library Company, Newport, R.I. August XXIV, MDCCCXLVII. With other commemorative pieces

Providence: Charles Burnett, Jr., 1848. First edition, small 8vo, pp. iv, [3], 8-63, [1]; original tan printed wrappers; back wrap loosening, but otherwise very good and sound. Aquidneck is the largest island in Narragansett Bay on which Portsmouth, Middletown, and Newport at the south end. The Redwood Library was founded in 1747 as a private subscription library and still occupies its original building, now a National Landmark, designed in the Palladian style by Peter Harrison in 1750. Brooks was pastor of the Universal Congregation Church in Newport from 1837-1871. He published several collections of verse but is best known as a translator of Schiller, Goethe and other German authors. BAL 1368; Bartlett, p. 44; Hammett, p. 27; Sabin 78341.