The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul": The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; finely bound in full polished tree calf
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.
$175.00
Item Number: 138271
London: Frederick Warne and Co, n.d.
Finely bound example of the collected poetical works of Longfellow. Octavo, bound in full contemporary polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In good condition.
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).
