The Old Oaken Bucket.

WOODWORTH, Samuel.

Item Number: 117640

Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1881.

First edition of Samuel Woodworth’s best-known work. Octavo, original cloth elaborately stamped in blind and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated by Miss L. B. Humphrey, engraved by and under the supervision of W. B. Closson. In near fine condition.

American writer, poet and playwright Samuel Woodworth was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, to Revolutionary War veteran Benjamin Woodworth and his wife Abigail Bryant. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Russell, editor of the Columbian Sentinel. He was best known for is poem The Old Oaken Bucket which was set to music by George F Kiallmark in 1826 and as been sung by generations of American schoolchildren since. The Woodworth House, also known as the Old Oaken Bucket Homestead, is on the National Register of Historic Places.