1796 JOEL BARLOW. The Hasty-Pudding. Important Early Epic American Poem. Very Scarce. Spurgeon Baptism in its Mode and

Baptism in its Mode and Subjects

titled "Divine Guidance

There are degrees of Inspiration

Bound into the blank ffep is what appears to be the original eulogy delivered at the interment of John Dunlop

with the middle one painted presumably with a missionary ship

1796 JOEL BARLOW. The Hasty-Pudding. Important Early Epic American Poem. Very Scarce. Spurgeon Baptism in its Mode andA very scarce imprint of an influential, apparently inexplicably rare piece of Americana . . . it ought to be owned and studied by every family in New England . . . said its publisher. And it was. Almost immediately it was anthologized in periodicals and literary readers; it remains so to this day. Yet, as highly influential as it was and is, extant copies are exceptionally rare with no copies on the market and none traced at public sale I can locate.