by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894.

First separate edition, revised from its appearance in MERCEDES, AND LATER LYRICS (1884).

Tiny inked "45" to copyright page, else a sharp, clean, near fine copy in blue binding with gilt titles, decoration; no dust jacket.

Tipped into the page facing the title-page is a vintage photo of the doorway to Aldrich's home in Boston.

The poet's drama of the tragic love between a French soldier and a Spanish peasant, set in 1810; in the revised version, as performed at Palmer's Theatre with Maurice Barrymore and Julia Arthur.

The play was first published in The Century Magazine in July 1884.

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