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Hillsdale, Mich.: Published by the Author, 1871. Second edition; the first appeared in 1869. Front free endpaper excised. Light foxing throughout, cloth a bit bumped and rubbed; a very good copy. 8vo (8 x 5.5 inches), original green cloth, gilt lettering, 216 pages. This edition printed in Lansing by W. S. George & Co. Generally verses of piety and sentiment, with several on rural life and a few in general terms on the Civil War. Cf. Davis & Joyce 4662.
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Poems on Various Subjects.
by Roseboom, Jane.
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The Traveller; or, Meditations on Various Subjects. Written on Board a Man of War, to which is Added, Converse with the World Unseen.
by [PITTSBURGH IMPRINTS]. Meikle, James.
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Pittsburgh: Published by R. Patterson & Lambdin, 1818. An early Pittsburgh edition and a later American edition of this 18th century account of a Scottish surgeon's meditations aboard a British man of war. Small flaw in one leaf, with loss of several letters. Some chipping and cracking at the head of the spine, with some wear to the label and corners; foxing; a very good copy. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 254, [8] pages. This appears to be an early publication from the combined efforts of Patterson and Lambdin (the partnership dissolved in bankruptcy in 1823); Patterson had been publishing in Pittsburgh since 1810 (indeed, publishing a 266-page edition of the Meikle in 1815), and Lambdin had been publishing in Pittsburgh since 1817. After joining forces in 1818, they appear to have sunk considerable energy into reprinting Meikle, publishing separately that year five of his titles as well as a four volume edition of his works. In any event, Patterson's…
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