Flower-De-Luce.
signed
1867 · Boston
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First separate edition, BAL 12144. Presentation copy, bearing a card pasted to the recto of the frontis that reads, “with kind regards and / good wishes of / the author / Oct 15, 1867.” The book is also signed by the author on the title page. This copy also has had an autograph signed letter laid-in, declining to send material for publication in a children’s periodical. It reads in full: “Cambridge Nov 26 / 1879 // Dear Sir, // I am very sorry that I / cannot send you a contri- / bution for your ‘Young / People”; but (truncated)