Roger E. Stoddard worked for forty-two years in the Harvard Library, retiring in 2004 as Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library, Senior Curator in the Houghton Library, and Senior Lecturer on English. Since then he has published bibliographies of Jacques-Charles Brunet, Primo Levi, and W. G. Sebald.David R. Whitesell is Curator in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; he previously served as Curator of Books at the American Antiquarian Society.

“This important, indeed groundbreaking, work promises to contribute immensely to our understanding of both early American literary culture and the history of American publishing and printing, while also opening up many avenues for fruitful future research. The result of a lifetime of work by Roger Stoddard, bookman extraordinaire, and diligently edited by David Whitesell, this bibliography provides a definitive record of the canon of early American poetry with detailed descriptions, many discoveries and new attributions, and extensive listings of holdings.”—Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPoet and Printer in Colonial and Federal America: Some Bibliographical PerspectivesSome General StatisticsDedicationsSubscriptionsRecitationsPopular TextsPublishers’ Bindings in PaperIllustrationsIntroduction to the BibliographyParts of the EntryAbbreviationsBibliographical CitationsLocation SymbolsConspectus of the BibliographyThe BibliographyThe IndexesIndex of Place of PublicationIndex of Printers and PublishersIndex of Artists and EngraversIndex of Bookbindings Signed or AttributedIndex of DedicateesProvenance IndexSubject IndexAuthor and Title Index

Roger E. Stoddard worked for forty-two years in the Harvard Library, retiring in 2004 as Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library, Senior Curator in the Houghton Library, and Senior Lecturer on English. Since then he has published bibliographies of Jacques-Charles Brunet, Primo Levi, and W. G. Sebald.David R. Whitesell is Curator in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; he previously served as Curator of Books at the American Antiquarian Society.

“This important, indeed groundbreaking, work promises to contribute immensely to our understanding of both early American literary culture and the history of American publishing and printing, while also opening up many avenues for fruitful future research. The result of a lifetime of work by Roger Stoddard, bookman extraordinaire, and diligently edited by David Whitesell, this bibliography provides a definitive record of the canon of early American poetry with detailed descriptions, many discoveries and new attributions, and extensive listings of holdings.”—Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPoet and Printer in Colonial and Federal America: Some Bibliographical PerspectivesSome General StatisticsDedicationsSubscriptionsRecitationsPopular TextsPublishers’ Bindings in PaperIllustrationsIntroduction to the BibliographyParts of the EntryAbbreviationsBibliographical CitationsLocation SymbolsConspectus of the BibliographyThe BibliographyThe IndexesIndex of Place of PublicationIndex of Printers and PublishersIndex of Artists and EngraversIndex of Bookbindings Signed or AttributedIndex of DedicateesProvenance IndexSubject IndexAuthor and Title Index

Roger E. Stoddard worked for forty-two years in the Harvard Library, retiring in 2004 as Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library, Senior Curator in the Houghton Library, and Senior Lecturer on English. Since then he has published bibliographies of Jacques-Charles Brunet, Primo Levi, and W. G. Sebald.David R. Whitesell is Curator in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; he previously served as Curator of Books at the American Antiquarian Society.

“This important, indeed groundbreaking, work promises to contribute immensely to our understanding of both early American literary culture and the history of American publishing and printing, while also opening up many avenues for fruitful future research. The result of a lifetime of work by Roger Stoddard, bookman extraordinaire, and diligently edited by David Whitesell, this bibliography provides a definitive record of the canon of early American poetry with detailed descriptions, many discoveries and new attributions, and extensive listings of holdings.”—Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPoet and Printer in Colonial and Federal America: Some Bibliographical PerspectivesSome General StatisticsDedicationsSubscriptionsRecitationsPopular TextsPublishers’ Bindings in PaperIllustrationsIntroduction to the BibliographyParts of the EntryAbbreviationsBibliographical CitationsLocation SymbolsConspectus of the BibliographyThe BibliographyThe IndexesIndex of Place of PublicationIndex of Printers and PublishersIndex of Artists and EngraversIndex of Bookbindings Signed or AttributedIndex of DedicateesProvenance IndexSubject IndexAuthor and Title Index