Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard

Boston: Moses A. Dow, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Dedicated to Daniel Webster with a frontispiece portrait of him. Prints a biography of Webster and unattributed preface. Slim quarto. Poem illustrated with cuts. Small Boston binder's ticket ("B. Bradley & Co.") on front pastedown. Red cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine dulled, loss at corners and spine ends, front fly creased with a tiny tear and pages adjacent to the flyleaves tanned, frontispiece and adjacent pages foxed, sound and about very good. Also prints the poems "The Great Are Falling From Us" by T. Buchanan Read, and "A Fragment: From an Unpublished Poem" by George S. Burleigh, as well as a one-page ad for publisher Moses A. Dow's *The Waverly Magazine*.