Poetical Of LONGFELLOW - 1890s Full Leather Binding -
Item History & Price
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THE POETICAL WORKS
of
LONGFELLOW
Including Recent Poems
No Stated Date c1890s
This is an attractive leather-bound edition of the poetical works of the famous American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82).
Published by Frederick Warne & Co. as part of the "Lansdowne" poets series. There is no stated date but an inscription is dated 1894.
The book is bound in thin red full leather boards with gold titlin...g on the spine and front board. It measures approx. 7 1/4" x 5 1/4" with viii and 664 red-outlined pages. There is a frontispiece portrait of Longfellow and 8 other full-page illustrations. All edges gilt.
The case of the book is in very good condition.
The contents are tight and clean with a name and a brief inscription dated 1894 on the back of the front free endpaper.
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