An absolutely charming, near miniature production including a whole host of early temperance, anti-alcohol poems in the form of cautionary tales, etc.
Includes: The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth; The Sons of Temperance; I've Broke the Chain; Passing Away - A Dream by John Pierpont; Intemperance; The Washington Banner; Temperance Song of Triumph; The Temperance Banner; The Drunkard's Wife by S. E. Chadwick; Hate not the Sinner by Caroline F. Orne; The Water by Mrs. Seba Smith; The Drunkard's Grave; The Two Pillars: The Sunday School and the Temperance Cause; The Star of Temperance; For all that can Intoxicate by William B. Tappan; Your Father is a Man Again by John Neal; Lines Written by a Lady as an Excuse for her Zeal in the Temperance Cause; Spirit Voices by Miss Mary Gardiner; The Drunkard's Wife by W. H. E. Hosmer; The Inebriate's Daughter; Or, Who is to Blame; Dash the Wine Cup Away by William H. Burleigh; Lament of the Widowed Inebriate; Total Abstinence; The Star of Temperance; The Poor Man to his Dead Child; The Warning Cry by Sheridan Carey; Song of the Tea-Totaller by George W. Bethune, etc.
Excellent little item of interest to those interested in The Oxford Movement; Alcoholics Anonymous; Narcotics Anonymous; Temperance; Prohibition, etc.
Barclay, Kate. The Temperance Token: Or, Crystal Drops from the Old Oaken Bucket. Auburn and Buffalo. John E Beardsley. 1857. 128pp.
Good + with some rubbing to cloth, a but bumped at extremities. A diminutive 3 x 4.5 inches. Very solid and clean with some light foxing at points.