The Story of Bacchus and Centennial Souvenir

by Connecticut, Brigham Payne

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Lithograph frontispiece showing Baccus. Sm. 4to. Publisher's morocco gilt stamped binding. Rubbed, some offsetting from turn-ins and clippings else an excellent copy. Item #20400 The history of the wooden figure Baccus carved in 1776. In 1776 after the capture of their ship the Bombrig, four British prisoners were confined in Windham jail and while there they carved this wooden figure of

• Binding: Leather

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