The Berkshire jubilee, celebrated at Pittsfield, Mass. August 22 and 23, 1844
Albany: Weare. C. Little. E. P. Little, Pittsfield, 1845. 8vo, pp. 244; wood-engraved frontispiece (in the pagination) and 7 full-page wood engravings; original wrappers laid down over a new blue cloth binding; the introduction mistakenly bound in prior to the title page, but otherwise very good and attractive. A two-day summer celebration encompassing the communities of Pittsfield, Stockbridge, Lee, Great Barrington, Lenox, and Williamstown (each of which is illustrated here with a bird's-eye view), with requisite sermons, addresses, odes, poems, and sentiments, and a detailed account of the farewell dinner banquet. Among the contributors is Lydia Sigourney who contributes three poems, and Oliver Wendell Holmes who contributes a poem and a speech. Published at expense of the Sons of Berkshire under the editorship of their committee of five, viz.: Rev. John Todd, E. Ballard, C. Sedgwick, W. C. Bryant, H. L. Sabin. BAL 8740 (Holmes) and 17799 (Sigourney). Item #57917
Price: $325.00
