The Anthony Memorial. A Catalogue of the Harris Collection of American Poetry with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes. By John C. Stockbridge
by Caleb Fiske Harris
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About This Item
Providence, 1886.
Tall 8vo. 250 x 185 mm., [10 x 7 inches]. xxii, 320 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Henry B. Anthony. Original red cloth binding; color rubbed at spine, some staining to the lower part of the front and back board, front hinge a bit loose but sound.
First edition of the catalogue of the Harris Collection of American Poetry, bequeathed to Brown University by Harris's cousin Henry B. Anthony, who purchased it from Harris's estate.
The foundation of the collection was originally formed by Albert Gordon Greene, Clerk of the City of Providence and chosen as Judge the Municipal County in 1858. Greene was a founder of the Providence Athenaeum and an amateur poet whose skills are were unrealized, but whose love of the form compelled him to seek out early printings and rarities by American practitioners. After Judge Greene's death in 1868, Harris, a successful business man, purchase 1,000 books of poetry formed by Greene and added this to his already growing collection of books and manuscripts.
This catalogue, compiled by J. C. Stockbridge, Brown University Librarian, lists the thousands of titles of American poetry collected by Greene and Harris and includes numerous rarities that make it the most important collection of its kind in America. The descriptions are written in short title format, some with very interesting and informative notes.
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- The Anthony Memorial. A Catalogue of the Harris Collection of American Poetry with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes. By John C. Stockbridge
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- Caleb Fiske Harris
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- Place of Publication
- Providence
- Date Published
- 1886
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