Between the Covers

Softcover. First edition. 12mo. Stitched unbound sheets. [12]pp., untrimmed, unopened. A fine copy. Three melancholy poems from an early 19th Century American woman expressing the toll of child mortality: “On the Death of Mr. Ranslure Clark who Died of the Putred fever Oct. 26, 1802. in the eighteenth year of his age,” “On the Death of Daniel Clark who died Feb. 4th 1803. In the Ninth year of his age,” and “On the Death of Mary Weld Clark who died of the Meazles May 19th, 1803. Aet. Sixteen Months.” With the additional poem, “An Address to Christian Parents in affliction. By the Rev. Joseph Blodget.” *Stoddard*, Unrecorded *Wegelin*, 158; *Davis & Joyce* 3671.

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