The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell with Notes, and a Biographical Sketch

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1854. First Thus edition, with 1854 on title page in Roman numerals, and on verso in copyright statement. Bound in blind embossed brown cloth wilt gilt titles on spine; boards are rubbed, with some loss of cloth at extremities; spine cloth is split at both gutters, but present and adhering to book. Pages toned with some spotting, including to the frontis engraving of Campbell. 3 pp of ads bound in front, between front free endpaper and front pastedown; text unmarked . With the ownership signature of "G. S. Wardwell, Cambridge, Aug 4th,1856" George Smith Wardwell, 1829-1895, was a member of the Harvard class of 1855, and later a judge of the Municipal Court of Buffalo, New York, and a member of the inaugural faculty of the Law School of the Unoversity of Buffalo (1891). Wardwell, with his brother William, was a member of the Niagara Baseball Club in 1857, the first organized baseball team to play the game in the City of Buffalo. A nice association copy. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 427 pages.…