Boston Common: three pictures

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. "Lithographed facsimile of the author's fair copy of the poem ... evidently prepared in connection with the fair, which opened in Boston on November 16, 1859, held in aid of a fund to procure Ball's statue of Washington for the city, to be placed on Boston Common."--T.F. Currier. A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1953, p. 85. Printed on one side of a single-folded sheet. At end of poem facsimile signature: Oliver Wendell Holmes Nov. 14th 1859. "Entered according to an act of Congress, A.D. 1859, by F.H. Underwood in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of Massachusetts."