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of p. 5 blank. There are also copies which have a catalogue of 

 six pages, differing in content. Brown pocked cloth, gilt 

 lettering on back and blind stamped monogram of the pub- 

 lishers on both covers. 



This is the first separate edition of " The Culprit Fay," but 

 unauthorized. On p. 6 of the "Catalogue" is an announce- 

 ment of "a charming edition" of the poem "printed on col- 

 ored plate paper," bound in muslin. Presumably it is the 

 edition described above. J. R. D. De Kay, a grandson of the 

 poet, writing about this publication to the editor of The Home 

 Journal, on March 30, 1859, said: "Gentlemen: An edition of 

 Joseph Rodman Drake's poem, ' The Culprit Fay,' having been 

 recently issued by a publishing house in this city, and ex- 

 tensively advertised for sale, I hereby announce that the edi- 

 tion was published without the consent of the family of the 

 late Mr. Drake, and that the sale is peremptorily stopped. It 

 was the desire of the Author that his poems should not be pub- 

 lished, and, to pervent it, a few copies of this, and others, were 

 printed some years since [i, e., 1847], f° r private circulation, 

 and a copyright registered. It is doubtless in ignorance of 

 these facts that these gentlemen [/. e., Rudd and Carleton] 

 now issue it. Several other editions of ' The Culprit Fay ' 

 have appeared at various times, which have as in this case 

 been immediately suppressed." Notwithstanding this declara- 

 tion, Rudd and Carleton, or their successors, continued to 

 bring out editions and the record thereof, so far as ascertained, 

 is given in this bibliography. The text of all editions with 

 the imprint of R. Craighead is from the same stereotype plates, 

 which show the natural wear in later impressions. The Bronx 

 Society copy has the 5 page catalogue; two copies in the New 

 York Public Library have a 6 page catalogue but varying in 

 make-up. 



The / Culprit Fay / By / Joseph Rodman Drake. / New 

 York: / Rudd & Carleton, 130 Grand Street, / (Brooks 

 Building, cor. of Broadway.) / MDCCCLX. 



