The conquest of Canaan; a poem in eleven books

by Timothy Dwight

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: J. Johnson, 1788. First English edition, 12mo, pp. vii, 1 , 363, 1 ; in original boards; spine perished, hinges weak and text split, closed tears on title leaf and leaves I6 and K4, owner's signature excised on dedication leaf, contemporary gift inscription from Lucy Cushman to Susanna Tufts on first page of poem, occasional very mild foxing. An American epic poem, self-described as the first of its kind and written as a biblical allegory of the

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