Blue lights, or the convention. A poem, in four cantos.
New York: printed and published by Charles N. Baldwin, bookseller, 1817. First and only edition, 16mo, 150pp., orig. printed blue paper-covered boards rubbed, spine partially perished; a good copy. Text concerns the Hartford Convention. Writing in his dotage, the author, a "melancholic student of Yale" and a resident of Connecticut, includes a preface in which he acknowledges a debt to his "Scottish namesake," and comments on the state of learning in New England. He is "fixed as a district teacher in the village of ----, where he takes his morning walk with the parson, his evening pipe with the deputy sheriff, and on Saturdays, after dinner, rehearses his literary productions to his maiden sister, an elderly lady of excellent judgement." Wegelin 1132; Sabin 78325. Item #3840
Price: $150.00
