Lines written while looking backwards over Eugene Field's shoulder

Read by John T. Winterich to Jacob Blanck at a luncheon tendered by C. Waller Barrett, December 9, 1956. French folded; some edges deckled; printed on double pages. Page [2] blank. Colophon on page [4]: Printed at the Palimpsest Press still situate in the Harvard Yard. Between lines of colophon printer's mark of initials. First printing, on oyster white, handmade Spanish paper. All except 4 copies suppressed because of faulty impression. According to information from a note written by Jacob Blanck June 1, 1956 addressed to "Dear Dave" (See Brown University's Hay Broadsds HB34779 MA): "The epic commemorates an Event. It was printed in Harvard Yard (basement of Lamont Library to be specific) by William H. Bond, curator of mss at Houghton Library. I was his devil." RBN record represents an archival collection of 2 states (final state and first proof) of suppressed 1st printing.