SARGENT, Epes

THE DEATH OF WARREN, A NATIONAL SONG.The music composed and most respectfully dedicated to his friend Abraham R. Thompson, M.D., of Charlestown, Mass. by William R. Dempster.

Boston, (MA): Oliver Ditson, 1845. First edition. 4to. 11 pp. Lyrics and music, a prose preface describing Warren duty and death at Bunker Hill, and a title-page lithograph (F.F. Oakley’s Lith. 204 Washn. St. Boston) illustrating Warren’s death as part of a patriotic panel including vignettes of Warren’s birthplace and the Bunker Hill Monument. Not in BAL. OCLC locates an 1845 Boston printing, published by Ditson, but with the lithograph by Thayer & Co.; this issue, with the F. F. Oakley lithograph, apparently not recorded there. Some soiling, old light tideline in lower corn of title leaf. Item #65829

Price: $150.00