The Battles of the Crimea; With Other Poems on the Most Interesting Incidents of the Campaign, from well authenticated sources.

Port Hope, Canada West: J. C. Annesley [Printed at the "British Ensign" Office], 1855. Book. 12mo, orig. printed stiff wrappers. Pp. 67; vi, (1). Moderately rubbed, fine within. Sole edition. Patriotic descriptive verse, by a resident of Port Hope, collected for charity from appearances "in the British Ensign and other Colonial papers." Includes poems on the battles of Balaklava, Inkerman and Alma, also "To the Surgeons with the Army in the East," "The Queen's Message to the Wounded," "The Graves of the Crimea," and "On Lieutenant Maxse, who volunteered to retrace his steps at night through the dense forest, infested with Cossacks..." Only a handful of pre-1860 Port Hope imprints are recorded..