Title: Rare & odd
Product review: So far as I know, this is the only printing. Joyce, an Irish immigrant, Civil War "colonel" from Kentucky (actual military rank of Adjutant), minor crony of the Grant years and self-styled "Poet of Washington", wrote Poe's first biography (Neely, 1901), "Burns" (Regan, Chicago, 1910), and "Shakspere: Personal Recollections (spelling sic; Broadway, NY, 1904), in addition to volumes of his own poetry. Joyce's works are of interest primarily because he reflects the hypermoralistic outlook of the period after the Civil War. Not a valuable work for study of Burns. However, his autobiographical "A Checkered Life" (if you can find it) is of value because it describes in some detail his experiences as an asylum inmate, as well as his involvement in the Whiskey Ring scandals, for which he served time. I believe the Library of Congress and the University of Kentucky have copies of these works.
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