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The leaf preceding p. [71] is a special title reading: Some account of a manuscript, found among the papers of a French emigrant in London, entitled Talleyrand’s descent into Hell. “From the Anchor Club.”
Frontispiece, the portrait of the author engraved by D. Edwin, after Field.
Library has another copy in NBHD, lacking portrait.
Some of Cliffton’s poems are printed in Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry, Boston, 1829, v. 2, p. 87-93, NBH; also in E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck. Cyclopædia of American literature, New York, 1866, v. 1, p. 604-609, NBB.
—— To William Gifford, esquire. (In: William Gifford, The Baviad, and Mæviad. Philadelphia, 1799. 16º. p. v-xi.)
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Written for this edition of Gifford’s Baviad, and Maviad, at the request of the publisher, William Cobbett. Signed and dated: C. Philadelphia 13th May, 1799.
Reprinted in E. A. and G. L. Duyckinck, Cyclopædia of American literature, v. 1, p. 606-607, NBB.
Club of Odd Volumes. Early American poetry [reprints]. v. 1-5. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1894-98. 5 v. sq. 8º.