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Royal 8°; half-title of "Bradford Club Series. Number 

 two,' verso blank; title-page, with copyright, etc. on verso; 

 "Club Copy," verso blank; "Preface," pp. [v]— vi; "Con- 

 tents," pp. [vii] — viii ; text, pp. [I] — 133 ; 134 blank ; " Notes," 

 PP- [ I 35l — x 79; 1 &° blank; "Index," pp. [181] — 191; orna- 

 ment on verso of p. 191. Steel-engraved portraits of Drake 

 and Halleck as frontispieces. The Society has a " Club 

 Copy" presented by John B. Moreau to Dr. L. R. Koecker, 

 but lacks the Drake portrait. Other copies seen are in the 

 New York Public Library, which has also copies of the " Sub- 

 scriber's Copy " issue, in yellow wrappers with paper label 

 and in green pocked cloth, with gilt lettering on the back. 

 These issues are identical save for the leaf which indicates 

 their issue. The Club edition was for members and limited 

 to one hundred copies. The other copies were sold to sub- 

 scribers. 



The editors state in the preface : " More than once since 

 their first appearance in the columns of the daily newspapers, 

 efforts have been made for their collection in print, and one 

 or two unauthorized gatherings have thus been made while 

 numerous copies more or less complete, prepared with con- 

 siderable trouble, have been circulated in manuscript. . . •. 

 The collection will be found to contain several original 

 Croakers by Mr. Halleck, which, though written at the period 

 of the others, have not hitherto seen the light, while several 

 additions of a similar nature have been made from the manu- 

 scripts of Drake." The best edition of these pleasant satires, 

 with indispensable explanatory notes. In the Manuscript 

 Division of the New York Public Library there is a neatly- 

 written collection of the Croaker poems, in two pocket-size 

 volumes, the paper of one having a watermark date of 1802, 

 and the other a watermark date of 181 5. They belonged to 

 Mr. James Lenox, whose autograph is on the front flyleaf of 

 one of the volumes and may have come to him in his youth, 

 as he was born in the city of New York in the year 1800, 

 son of Robert Lenox, one of the chief merchant princes of 



