Item #2423 THE SAYINGS OF DR. BUSHWACKER; and Other Learned Men / Et Al. Fred c. S. Cozzens.
THE SAYINGS OF DR. BUSHWACKER; and Other Learned Men / Et Al.
THE SAYINGS OF DR. BUSHWACKER; and Other Learned Men / Et Al.
THE SAYINGS OF DR. BUSHWACKER; and Other Learned Men / Et Al.

THE SAYINGS OF DR. BUSHWACKER; and Other Learned Men / Et Al.

New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. First Edition. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED by the AUTHOR, 12mo (7 3/8" x 5 1/2"), green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering & publisher's calligraphed "AS&Co" device on spine, 213 pages. Good + / None. Item #2423

RARE & INSCRIBED by the 19th century American humorist. Slightly cocked; cloth somewhat rubbed; lacks endpapers.

Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1818–1869) was an American humorist, who sometimes wrote under the name Richard Haywarde.

Cozzens was born in New York City in 1818. In early life, he became a wine merchant. Beginning in 1854, he was the proprietor and editor of Cozzens' Wine Press, a magazine on the culture of wine. In its issues, which he ran until 1861, he particularly promoted American wines.
Cozzens had previously contributed humorous poems and articles to magazines, and in 1853 he issued his first volume, Prismatics, under the pen name "Richard Haywarde". Then came the The Sparrowgrass Papers, first published in The Knickerbocker, and collected in book form in 1856. The book, which was immediately popular and also published under the name Haywarde, followed a family that moved from New York City to the countryside in Yonkers Three years later (1859) he published a volume of travel sketches, Acadia; or a Sojourn among the Blue Noses. The book reported on the difficulties of blacks who settled in Nova Scotia along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
Soon after the American Civil War he failed in a business for which he had labored earnestly, especially by promoting the sale of native wines, and retired from Yonkers to Rahway, New Jersey. His other works include Poems (1867) and a Memorial of Fitz-Greene Halleck (1868). He was the father of the marine artist Fred Cozzens (1846-1928).

This appears to be the first edition; a subsequent edition was published in 1871 by Hurd and Houghton in New York.

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