The 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: 8th ed.
Publisher: E. H. Butler & Co.
Published: 1864
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: American poetry -- Collections.; Women poets, American.
Genres: Collections.
Other titles: Female poets.
Notes: Added chromolithographed t.p.

"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. 478.

" ... the present edition has been thoroughly revised, and the biographies brought up to the present time. [dated] Philadelphia, June, 1856."--Publisher's advertisement.

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