A Fable for Critics
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First edition
New York : G. P. Putnam, 1848. First Edition. Fourth state, per BAL, with pp.63-64 correctly paginated. 12mo 20cm . Plum cloth, blindstamped, titled in gilt on spine; iv , i - iv 5 -78pp; publisher's ad facing title page. T.p. printed in black and red. Sound and straight but faded and rubbed at extremities, heavily foxed: Good. A satiric jeu d'esprit in verse surveying the state of letters in
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