The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [Fore-edge Painting].

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.

$850.00

Item Number: 138812

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1877.

Finely bound example of the collected poetical works of Longfellow. Octavo, bound in full contemporary crushed levant morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a pastoral scene, illustrated. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An attractive binding.

Longfellow’s success spanned both sides of the Atlantic: "He wrote some of the most popular poems in American literature, in which he created a new body of romantic American legends, and when he died, he was the first American whose bust was placed in the Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey" (Columbia University Press).