Poems
Providence: Cranston & Hammond, 1834. First edition, 12mo, pp. xxii [i.e. xxxii], [2], 98; original green cloth boards, brown leather label on spine; boards and label worn, textblock in rough shape, with endpaper, flyleaf, and final few leaves in back reattached, pp. 5-10 torn through the middle, retaining all text; fair only. Bookplate of the estate of William P Sheffield, a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, and the ownership signature of Anna Elizabeth Hardy of New Port [sic], Rhode Island. Taggart was an invalid and suffered from insomnia and chronic pain throughout her life. Her poetry reflects her condition, and was put forward in the introduction as "defective" in some respects but remarkable for the circumstances in which it was produced. The 22-page preliminary includes a synopsis of her life and letters of note. American Imprints 27004. Item #57725
Price: $200.00
