The Biglow papers
By: edited, with an introduction, notes, glossary, and copious index, by Homer Wilbur.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Slavery -- United States -- Poetry.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Poetry.
Other titles: Melibœus-Hipponax.
Notes: At head of title: Melibœus-Hipponax [descriptive epithet appled to the fictitious author by his pseudo-editor, Wilbur].
Author's name, James Russell Lowell, appears in copyright statement on verso of t.p.
First series. Of the nine papers, five appeared originally in the Boston courier, four in the Anti-slavery standard.
"Notices of an independent press": p. [1]-12 at beginning.
Advertisements on p. [1-12] at end.
Source: Gift of Daniel J. Boorstin, July 8, 1991.