Dartmoor Massacre

by John Hunter Waddell

$200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

7, 1 pp. Uncut. 8vo. Original blue paper wrappers. Sabin 100885; Stoddard and Whitesell 1116; Wegelin 1187n; Shaw and Shoemaker 36459. Item #339179 Scarce account in verse of the Dartmoor Massacre in which American prisoners captured American seamen in a British jail were attacked by their captors at the end of the War of 1812. A caption title above the first stanza reads: Transposed in Verse from the New-York Commercial Advertiser of the 6th

• Binding: Wrappers

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