The Biglow papers / edited with an introd. notes, glossary, and copious index, by Homer Wilbur, A.M., pastor of the First Church in Jaalam, and (prospective) member of many literary, learned and scientific societies
First series, "a second issue" pof 500 copies "for the New York market"; the first issued has imprint: Cambridge, G. Nichols, 1848. cf. L.S. Livingston, A bibl. of ... Lowell, 1914. Of the nine papers, five appeared originally in the Boston courier, four in the Anti-slavery standard. Title-page preceded by "Notices of an independent press," 12 page. At head of title: Meliboeus-Hipponax [descriptive epithet applied to the fictitious author by his pseudo-editor, Wilbur].