| Summary: | "Cover imprint varies: A. Phelps--Greenfield. Elisha Turner is known to have been active as a publisher as early as 1828. Turner died at age 41 on May 13, 1843. See the Hampshire gazette, May 16, 1843. Ansel Phelps was a newspaper publisher in Greenfield, Mass. between 1811 and 1868. He was last listed as a bookseller in the Massachusetts state directory for 1855. Variant states: one state bears numeral "9" at head p. [1] of wrapper; p. [1] of wrapper also bears a wood engraving of a standing man with a camel in the background; wood engraving of a girl feeding chickens appears on p. [4] of wrapper. Another state bears numeral "1" at head of p. [1] of wrapper; p. [1] of wrapper also bears a wood engraving of a bunch of grapes; a wood engraving of a cat and a dog appear on p. [4] of wrapper. Pagination: [3], 6-18 p. "Pride mortified."--poem, p. 16-18 (i.e., p. [14-16])."
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