1. A rare plate of Benedict Arnold, in uniform, as he appeared before Quebec.
2. A colored plate, showing the present uniform of the Company.
3. A most interesting reproduction of a document of unique interest—the original manuscript petition to the Assembly of Connecticut, praying for the incorporation of the Company. This is signed by all the original members of the Company, including Arnold and his brother-in-law, Pierpont Edwards, who afterwards, by the irony of Fate, became the executor of his estate, at the discovery of his treason.
The original is owned by the New Haven Colony Historical Society, and will be reproduced, not by engraving, but by an actual photograph—folding to fit the size of the page. The edition will be limited to 250 copies, of which 248 will be for sale.
200 will be octavo (6 × 9) gilt top, bound in cloth. $3.00.
50 will be large paper, bound in boards, 8 × 11, untrimmed edges, gilt top, special paper. $5.00.
Postage extra on each.
The printing will be from type, distributed as soon as the work has been done, and this edition will never be duplicated.
II.—The Poems of Edward Coate Pinkney. With a biographical sketch of of the poet, by Eugene L. Didier, author of a “Life of Edgar A. Poe,” “Life of Madame Bonaparte,” etc. The original edition of these poems is now one of the rarest items of Americana. It was published in 1825, and won the admiration of the chief American critics, Poe among them, who pronounced Pinkney to be “the first of American lyrists,” and his poem, “A Health,” (of which I give two verses herewith) “especially beautiful—full of spirit and brilliancy.”
A HEALTH