[VIRGINIA] [PRESENTATION COPY] A COLLECTION OF POEMS

Richmond, Va: A. Morris, 1859. Author's Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo.; in the publisher's brown embossed cloth; [i-viii], ix, [x], xi-xii, [2], [15], 16-139, [140] [4] pages; with a pencilled inscription by the author: "Presented to Miss Jennie W. Hawkins | with the cordial regards | of her friend | the Author | Norfolk, Oct. 25, ‘69".~~Poetry by the journalist, poet, and veteran of the Civil War, James Barron Hope. The poet enjoyed high popularity during his lifetime, even becoming the Poet Laureate of Virginia, though his fame has not lasted to the modern day. This being his poetic addresses given before various celebrations, and other miscellaneous poems; "Poem recited at the base of Crawford's Equestrian Statue of Washington, on the Capital Square, in Richmond"; "Poem recited on the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the English Settlement at Jamestown"; "Poem pronounced before the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Graduating Classes of William and Mary College,...1858". (Cullen S. Pitt "James Barron Hope: Virginia's Poet-Laureate" https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2272&context=masters-theses). Very Good binding.