The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier.

PICKARD, Samuel T. [John Greenleaf Whittier].

$975.00

Item Number: 109568

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895.

Riverside edition of the collected writings of abolition advocate John Greenleaf Whittier. Octavos, nine volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved frontipieces. In fine condition.

Remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings, American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier published the antislavery pamphlet Justice and Expediency in 1833 and from there dedicated the next twenty years of his life to the abolitionist cause. He produced two collections of antislavery poetry: Poems Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, between 1830 and 1838, and Voices of Freedom in 1846. Pickard's Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier includes his narrative, legendary, anti-slavery, reminiscent and religious poems in addition to Whittier's life and letters.