Item #50896 Original Poems. By A Citizen of Baltimore. Richard H. TOWNSEND.

Original Poems. By A Citizen of Baltimore.

Item #50896

[Townsend, Richard H.]: ORIGINAL POEMS. BY A CITIZEN OF BALTIMORE. [Baltimore:] Published by Samuel Jefferis. Robinson, Printer. 1809. 12mo. x, [1]-139, [3] pp, with the half title [as issued]. Original calf-backed boards [rubbed]. Text with light to moderate spotting, rear free endpaper torn. LACKS PAGES 53-56. Townsend explains that his poems ?are the effusions of those intervals, when business, yielding to the accustomed hours of recreation, leaves fancy free to escape the trammels, with which worldly cares hold it in subjection.? FIRST EDITION. AI 18773 [5]. Wegelin 1175. Bristol 793. $40.00.

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