"The Fly-Ing Dutchman; Or, the Wrath of Herr Vonstoppelnoze" by John G. Saxe. with sixteen comic illustrations, published by Carleton, New York, 1862, First Edition with MDCCCLXII [1862] on the bottom of the title page and copyright 1862 by the publisher. A satirical poem about Herr Vonstoppelnoze's battle against the fly.

Hard boards, embossed cloth [a few spine creases and a few small damages]; 5" x 7.3/4"; salmon color endpapers, 16 comic drawings and 16 verses, printed on one side only [blank verso]; + 6-page list of publisher's books including full-page ad for "Les Miserables" [1st American edition 1862], very good condition.

John Godfrey Saxe I (1816-1887) was an American poet known for his retelling of the Indian parable "The Blind Men and the Elephant" which introduced the story to a Western audience. He also said "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made."

He was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1843 and tried to run a business with his older brother, Charles Jewett Saxe. For some years he practiced successfully in Franklin County. In 1850-51 he served as state's attorney for Chittenden County. Bored by his legal work, Saxe began publishing poems for The Knickerbocker, of which "The Rhyme of the Rail" is his most famous early work. He soon caught the attention of the prominent Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields. Though he received no royalties for his first volume, it ran to ten re-printings and eventually outsold works by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Alfred Lord Tennyson. His poem "The Puzzled Census-Taker" amused many, and "Rhyme of the Rail" was possibly the most admired poem of the period about rail travel. Saxe was editor of the Sentinel in Burlington, Vermont, from 1850 to 1856.

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