Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate A fable for critics
Subtitle: or, better, (I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike, an old-fashioned title-page, such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents) A glance at a few of our literary progenies (Mrs. Malaprop's word) from The tub of Diogenes; a vocal and musical medley. That is, a series of jokes
By: by a wonderful quiz, who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, on the top of the tub. Set forth in October, the 21st day in the year '48: G.P. Putnam, Broadway
Publisher: [Putnam]
Published: 1849
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1848
Subjects: American literature; Anecdotes
Other titles: Fable for critics.
Work titles: Fable for critics
Notes: In verse.

Later editions published under title: A fable for critics.

Title page in red and black; on verso: Leavitt, Trow & Co., printers and stereotypers 49 Ann-street, N.Y.

Pages [iii]-v, rhymed preface in prose form.

One of several issues of the 2nd edition, which was stereotyped and published (anonymously) in 1849. Differs from the 1st edition in the punctuation and rubrication of the t.p., the insertion in the title of the line "A vocal and musical medley", the omission of "by" before the publisher's name, and in the correction of several misprints in the body of the work. There are no ruled headlines and the vignette on the last page is omitted. Does not contain the "Preliminary note to the second edition."

Cf. G.W. Cooke. A bibliography of James Russell Lowell. 1906, and Notes on the earliest editions of Lowell's Fable for critics, by H.L. Koopman, in the Literary world, Jan. 1898 (v.29, p. 9).

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