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Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Second Printing. Book has had water damage and cloth is lifted from boards. Much wear and soiling. Front hinge very weak; rear hinge parted. At best this is a copy to say you have a copy of this rare Georgia volume of poetry. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 174 pages; Poems by the Charlton brothers is one of the earliest collections of poems by Georgians. Robert Milledge Charlton was born in Savannah, GA and died there at the age of 46. In that short time he was a lawyer a GA state legislator, mayor of Savannah twice, a GA Supreme Court judge, and a US senator. In 1839 he published this volume of poems, including those of a deceased brother. He also contributed largely, both in prose and verse, to the pages of the "Knickerbocker Magazine," the best known of his writings for periodicals being " Leaves from the Portfolio of a Georgia Lawyer." He was distinguished as an orator. DeRenne II 457.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. 12mo. viii, 9-174 pages. Brown cloth hardcover with blind stamped decorations on the boards. Gilt lettered title on the spine. Light shelf wear to brown cloth. Light scattered foxing to content. Robert Charlton was a Mayor of Savannah, state politician, Judge, and a Senator from Georgia. Thomas J. Charlton, brother of Robert, was a young distinguished Doctor in Savannah before he died at an early age. In the preface Robert writes of his brother - "But, as I have added some specimens of my brother's poetry, it would be doing his memory and talents an injustice, were I to preserve a total silence, He possessed a mind and a genius that would have done credit to any profession; and, in a few years, he would have won himself a name, both as physician and a poet, that would have descended as a lasting inheritance to his children." Derenne vol. 2 page 465.
