Maj Chas G Mayers THE SONGS OF TAYCHOBERA or ROMANCES OF THE FOUR LAKES 1889 Author Signed Antique Decorative Native American Indian Poetry Wisconsin Lakes Kegonsa Wabesa Monona Mendota Nature Stories Inscription Prof JB Roberts Yahara River

Title: The Songs of Taychobera, or Romances of the Four Lakes
Author: Charles G. Mayers
Publisher: David Atwood
City: Madison, Wisconsin
Year: 1889
Printing Information: Signed Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 75 pages
Width: 5.6" Height: 8"
Book Details: This decorative antique volume is bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering, a gilt stamped image of a Native American and native decoration stamped in black as well as decorative end papers.

This author signed volume contains four poems, each about a lake in Wisconsin bearing a Native American name: Kegonsa, Wabesa, Monona and Mendota.

"These poems are the offspring of many happy hours spent in communing with Nature upon and around the lakes whose faintly-whispered stories they endeavor to relate."

The author and poet, Maj. Chas. G. Mayers, signed a personal inscription, on the second free endpaper, dated December 18, 1890.

Taychopera is the glacial-formed chain of lakes, marshes and river now known as Mendota, Monona, Waubesa, Kegonsa, Upper and Lower Mud, and the Yahara River.
Condition / Notes: This decorative antique volume shows very well, bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering, a gilt stamped image of a Native American and native decoration stamped in black as well as decorative end papers.

The books show some age/wear externally concentrated at the extremities, including discoloration of the cloth on the back board.

The binding is are tight and secure, the pages are bright and clean with mild age toning throughout.

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