POEM BY GUY BRYAN SCHOTT, AND THE VALEDICTORY ORATION, BY DONALD G. MITCHELL. PRONOUNCED BEFORE THE SENIOR CLASS OF YALE COLLEGE, JULY 7, 1841. PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF THE CLASS

New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen, 1841. 48pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume, without wrappers. A very good copy thus. First edition, BAL's printing 'b' (no priority established) of the first book (albeit a joint appearance) by the writer better known under his pen-name, "Ik Marvel." The other printing includes the full-title of Mitchell's oration, "The Dignity of Learning," on the title-page and paginates differently. BAL 13920. SEVEN GABLES 30:199. (Inventory #: WRCLIT42937)