THE PRESENT STATE OF LITERATURE; A POEM, DELIVERED IN NEW-HAVEN, AT THE PUBLIC COMMENCEMENT OF YALE COLLEGE, SEPTEMBER 10, 1800

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1800. 16pp. Octavo. Later cloth, gilt leather spine label. Early ownership inscriptions on title (cut into when bound), some spotting and soiling, bookplate on pastedown and offset opposite, but a good copy. First edition of this poem, which based on the number of copies extant today, evidently had rather wide circulation. WEGELIN 939. EVANS 37337. STODDARD & WHITESELL 652. ESTC W27830. (Inventory #: WRCLIT77291)