[Rarebooks] FS: FRENEAU, POET OF THE REVOLUTION

[Norman Kane]

FRENEAU, PHILIP    
POEMS WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR . . . REPUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS . . . THE THIRD EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES [VOLUME ONE ONLY]
Philadelphia: Lydia Bailey, 1809. 
VOLUME ONE ONLY.  First of this edition. BAL 6452: first state of volume 2, with p.269 misnumbered 239; variant B of the front matter (no priority).   Only 1500 copies were printed.  Old calf, spine neatly repaired, old names on rear blanks: Joseph Barnett & John Barnett. WITH THE SCARCE FRONTISPIECE BY JOHANN ECKSTEIN SHOWING A NAVAL BATTLE. 302; xii pages. There are 10 ornamental cuts (a literary monkey, a cherub, urn, trees.)  Lengthy subscriber list headed by Madison,, Jefferson & the Library of Congress and including such names as  Mathew Carey, Wm. J. Duane, Peter Muhlenberg, Nicholas Biddle, Chas. Pinckney, & Peter Freneau.    The poems are largely (but not entirely) patriotic and topical: "Prologue to a Theatrical Entertainment", "On the Americans who fell in the Battle of Eutaw Springs", "On Capt. J. P. Jones's Victory", "The British Prison Ship", a  verse autobiography of printer Hugh Gaine, the death of Franklin, "Mr. Paine's Rights of Man", &c, &c.  A scarce work by "The Poet of the American Revolution."

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