Poems and ballads

Baltimore: John W. Woods, 1865. 12mo, pp. [2], 161, [1]; original green cloth, gilt title on spine; light wear to extremities, some spotting in text, very good. Among the general cliches of pretty girls, the weather, and the local geography, are a number of poems on the politics of the day, including the emancipation of Maryland, the assassination of Lincoln, draft dodgers, and "National Treasury Vampires." The author does not appear to have published anything but this small collection. He also appears to have no biography, but in his introduction he places himself in Ashland, just north of Baltimore. While a digital copy sourced from the British Library (truncated) is ostensibly on record, investigation leads to a scan of a completely different title, and no physical copies seem located in OCLC. Not in Sabin. Allibone Supplement, p. 1038. (Inventory #: 69887)