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Sunday, August 23, 2020

Harper & Brothers publish BATTLE PIECES

This day 154 years ago, Harper & Brothers published Herman Melville's collection of Civil War poems titled Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. From the New York Commercial Advertiser, August 23, 1866 via genealogybank.com:
New York Commercial Advertiser - August 23, 1866

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

HARPER & BROTHERS, New York
Publish this Day:

I. BATTLE PIECES
AND
ASPECTS OF THE WAR.

By HERMAN MELVILLE,
Author of "Typee," "Omoo," "Redburn," "Mardi," "Moby Dick," "Whitejacket," &c.
12mo, CLOTH, BEVELED EDGES, $1 75. 

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