female poets of America
Subtitle: with portraits, biographical notices, and specimens of their writings
By: by Thomas Buchanan Read.
Contributors: Dreser, William, b. ca. 1820.; Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881.; Mears, Edw. B.; Sherman, Conger, 1793-1867 (printer)
Edition: Fourth Edition, with additions and alterations.
Publisher: E. H. Butler & Co.
Published: 1851
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; American poetry -- Collections.; Women poets, American.
Genres: Specimens.; Collections.
Other titles: Female poets.; Read's female poets of America :
Notes: Added chromolithographed publication page and t.p.

Includes one colour plate with the illuminated text of "Proem : the fairer land / by the Editor".

"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by E. H. Butler & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."--T.p. verso.

"E. B. Mears, Stereotyper."--p. 462.

"The present volume is offered to the public as a specimen of American Literature and American Art.  The double office of the Editor, as a poet and a painter, and his acknowledged eminence in both of these departments, have given him peculiar facilities for the preparation of such a work ... The portraits are all from paintings made by him expressly for this work, and are executed in the finest style of line-engraving by Mr. Pease ... The paper, and even the type, on which the book is printed, were made for this special purpose, and have been greatly admired for their beauty and finish ... "--Publisher's advertisement.

Chromolithographed publication page and t.p. include imprint: "Devereux, del.  Dreser, ft  Pr. in Colors by T. Sinclair, 101 Chesnut St. Phila."

Chromolithographed plate illuminating the text of "Proem" with imprint: "Printed in Colors by T. Sinclair, Phila.".

Plates with imprints "Read." and "Pease.".

MASS copy: Bound in black morocco blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  With a central sunken rectangular panel blocked in gold with an illustration showing a painter's easel and stand on both the upper and lower covers.  With presentation inscription dated 1851.  P. 179-180 torn out.