[Rarebooks] FS: An Acrostic Elegy -1837

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Harfield Lyndsey, Aged 26 Years"

[Enfield, Massachusetts; John Howe: ca. 1837].

A very handsome broadside elegy, featuring a woodcut border of stylized
leaves, with a coffin in the upper left corner. The main elegy is added to
by "An Acrostic" by "Samuel Dunn, Aet. 91 years 7 months". Samuel Dunn
[1746-1843] wrote a number of funereal acrostics and poems, and was known
as something of a "poet of the death-bed". The broadside is attributed to
the printer John Howe of Enfield, Massachusetts. Enfield is one of the
towns which was submerged by the Quabbin Reservoir in the 20th century.

Broadside. 8.5"x9", light soil, some light wrinkling. $250.00

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