A Public Lecture Occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D.LL.D. President of the University in Cambridge
Cambridge: Printed at the University Press in Cambridge by William Hilliard, 1804.
Price: $450.00
Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 21pp. Sewn unprinted blue wrappers. Near fine. An interesting association copy, Inscribed "From Rich. H. Dana to William Ellery," and with a later inscription from Ellery's son, G.W.W. Ellery to a small library in 1863. Richard Henry Dana was a Cambridge-born, Harvard-educated poet and literary critic and the father of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., the author of *Two Years Before the Mast*. The recipient, William Ellery, was Dana's grandfather and a Signer of the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island.
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