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front cover. The Croaker poems occupy pp. 253-365. The 

 Bronx Society has a reissue of 1873. The New York Public 

 Libarry has issues of 1869 and 1885. The Boston Public 

 Library has a reissue of 1899. All have the copyright of 1868. 

 A large paper edition, limited to 150 copies, was also issued 

 in 1869. The collection is like the duodecimo regular issue, 

 except the dedication which is here to Hamilton Fish; it has 

 also steel-engravings facing pp. [13], [18], 20, 29, [46], 

 [57], and [101] ; a good Woodbury type portrait of Drake, 

 from a miniature in the possession of Drake's daughter, facing 

 p. [257] ; a similar process portrait of Halleck, facing p. 

 [331]. There are no advertisements at the end of this issue. 

 Both varieties are in the New York Public Library. 



The / Life and Letters / of / Fitz-Greene Halleck. / By 

 James Grant Wilson. / [Quotation] / New York: / D. Apple- 

 ton and Company, / . . . / 1869. / 



12 ; also large paper, royal 8°, of which 100 copies were 

 printed. This work is the best source for information about 

 the life of Drake, as well as of Halleck. Gen. Wilson was 

 Halleck's literary executor. The volume contains also two 

 pleasant poetical epistles written by Drake to Halleck from 

 Scotland. A large paper copy is owned by the Bronx Society 

 of Arts and Sciences. 



Bryant and his Friends : some Reminiscences of the Knicker- 

 bocker Writers. By James Grant Wlison. New-York: 

 Fords, Howard & Hulbert. 1886. 



12 ; also large paper, royal 8°, of which 195 copies were 

 printed. A good biography of Drake is given on pp. [280] — 

 311, accompanied by a steel portrait, engraved by Williams 

 after the painting by Rodger s, and between pp. 292-293 there 

 is a facsimile of the original autographic manuscript of 

 Drake's " Abelard to Eloise," signed by him. This work is in 

 the New York Public Library. 



