Product Description
First edition. Tall octavo. 71pp. Finely engraved frontispiece portrait of Boker. Beveled purple cloth boards gilt. Bookplate of the important art collector and philanthropist Samuel Bancroft, Jr. Tissue guard on frontispiece a bit torn and creased, sunning of the spine and light chipping at the extremities, about very good. Includes a report on the Reception, a farewell dinner upon Boker's farewell to take his post in turkey, also includes the text of a speech and new poem by Bayard Taylor to Boker, as welll as the text of tributes to Boker from those invited who could not attend including Henry W. Longfellow, Edmund Steadman, Thomas Baily Aldrich, George William Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cullen Bryant, James T. Fields, and others. Uncommon, likely issued in quite limited numbers.
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