Meliboeus-Hipponax: The Biglow Papers Second Series James Russell Lowell, 1867

HISTORY: First American edition of the Second Series of Lowell's satire in Yankee dialect, written in support of the Union cause. First published in three parts in London in 1862 followed by one volume editions in 1864 and 1865. As in the First Series, published in 1848 and written in opposition to the Mexican-American War and the expansion of slavery, the Second Series is presented as a series of letters and verse by the New England farmer Hosea Biglow and his friend Birdofredom Sawin, and is embellished with a faux critical apparatus by editor Homer Wilbur, Pastor of the First Church of Jaalam. Includes Lowell's popular Yankee dialect poem "The Courtin'."

DETAILS/CONDITION: Small octavo. Covers show wear, including: rubbing to extremities, stains and chipped corners. FFEP missing. Front hinge cracked. Toning, foxing. Pages are otherwise crisp and clean.