Beecher Memorial: Contemporaneous Tributes to the Memory of Henry Ward Beecher
Brooklyn, New York: Privately Printed, 1887.
Price: $125.00
Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. x, 110pp. With several illustrations in black and white. Moderately worn at the edges and spine ends, watered silk endpapers with two tiny chips, very good and sound.
Contains the first appearance of Julia Ward Howe's two-page poem "Henry Ward Beecher: Preacher, Patriot, Philanthropist," Lucy Larcom's two-page poem, "Henry Ward Beecher: A Memory of a Sermon," and contributions by many noted contributors including John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joaquin Miller, Laura Bridgman, James Branch Cable, and Dion Boucicault. Printed at the De Vinne Press.
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