Poems by Julia H. Scott. Together with a brief memoir by Miss S. C. Edgarton
Boston: A. Tompkins & B. B. Mussey, 1843. First edition, 12mo, pp. 216; striking mezzotint frontispiece portrait after S. A. Mount engraved by J. Sartain; original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind with light blue endpapers; some scuffing to covers, wear to extremities revealing boards at corners, and small areas of light foxing to endpapers and a few leaves of prelims and terminals, but still a very good copy with the gilt fresh and bright. A Pennsylvanian, Scott (1809-1842) published several poems and prose pieces in gift annuals and periodicals during her short life. This work, compiled by Edgarton "in obedience to an explicit and dying request" (Preface) made by Scott, is apparently the first gathering of her verses in book form. Many are of a religious nature and reflect her beliefs as a Unitarian-Universalist. Sabin 78334. Item #29827
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