Poems, on Various Subjects, Religious, Moral, Sentimental and Humorous . . . to which is added, A Brief Sketch of the Author’s Life, and of his Captivity and Sufferings among the Turks and Barbarians of Tripoli, on the Coast of Africa—written by Himself.
Auburn: Printed by U. F. Doubleday, 1821. First edition. 12mo, original calf, red leather spine label, gilt lettering, 254, [1] pages. Disappointed in 1803 in an editorship and having exhausted his resources in traveling to Philadelphia to take the prospective job, Ray “in a paroxysm of half despair and half..... More