Bodleian Battle-Pieces, donated by John S. Pierson

In 1886 the Bodleian  Library, Oxford received a substantial donation of Civil War books from Princeton grad John Shaw Pierson.

The exceptional number of donations from the United States in 1886 is mainly due to a collection of about 250 printed volumes relating to the American Civil War having been given by Mr. John S. Pierson of New York.  --The Bodleian Library in 1882-7 (Oxford, 1888). 

Donated books included the first edition of Herman Melville's volume of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. 

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The Bodleian Battle-Pieces is digitized and accessible online courtesy of The Internet Archive.

At least one of the first-edition copies of Battle-Pieces at Princeton was also from John S. Pierson, who donated many thousands of Civil War books and pamphlets in the Pierson Civil War Collection.

JOLINE, JOHN F. “Special Collections at Princeton: VI. THE PIERSON CIVIL WAR COLLECTION.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 2, no. 3 (1941): 105–10. https://doi.org/10.2307/26400811.