[Rarebooks] For Sale: Inscribed Book of Poetry by an American Artist

[Norman Kane]

BRACKETT, E[DWARD] A[UGUSTUS.]  TWILIGHT HOURS: LEISURE
MOMENTS OF AN ARTIST.  Boston:  Printed by Freeman & Bolles, 1845.
First edition.  Thin octavo, original boards, spine worn, some 
spotting.  95 pp.
Inscribed on the title page: "Mary Spenser from the Author."  Printed 
"for private circulation."  (Brackett, 1818-1908, a man of many 
parts, was long a fixture in Winchester, Mass, where, in addition to 
his artistic career, he was a nurseryman and ran a fish 
hatchery.  Among his sculptures were portrait busts of Allston, Dana, 
Longfellow, Garrison, & John Brown, as well as a monumental
life size sculpture of "The Shipwrecked Mother and Child."  The book 
contains such poems as "The Wreck of the Slave Ship," "The Beggar 
Boy,"  "The Kennebec," "Lines Suggested by Finishing a Bust of 
Allston," &c.)  $150.00
(Trade Discount 10%)


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