The Boston book, being specimens of metropolitan literature

Boston: Light & Stearns, 1837. FIRST EDITION. Engraved title and additional printed title. Original publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, title and date in gilt on spine, binding in exquisite condition; some browning and spotting. First edition of the second of four anthologies under this title (the others being published in 1836, 1841 and 1850). Thatcher (1809-1840), although a lawyer like his father (who was also a representative to Congress from Massachusetts), devoted himself to literature, contributing several articles to journals critiquing American poets. Here he includes original works of poetry and literature by Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard Dana, John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles Sprague, Francis Wayland, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, and his own work, among many others. Holmes contributed three poems including “Our Yankee Girls”, “Old Ironsides” and “The Comet.”

C&T, pp. 370, 560.