This is the 1864 First Printing of A SELECTION OF (CIVIL) WAR LYRICS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD BY F.
DARLEY, Published in an octavo in New York by James Gregory measuring 6 & 7/8" x 9 & 1/8" containing 32 pp. With 8 tinted woodcut illustrations interleaved amongst 7 poems written by 6 authors including Ethel Lynn Beers, Edmund Stedman, R. It is bound in the publisher's decorative green diamond-patterned paper-covered boards backed in purple cloth with a herringbone pattern.
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