Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 1/4-inch chip at head of spine, old newspaper clippings mounted on front flyleaves, some foxing at beginning and end. 8vo (17.8 x 11.2 cm). 52 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whittier by H. W. Smith after a photograph by Hawes (foxed), with tissue guard. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt-titled on front cover and spine. Provenance: Edward S. Marsh (engraved bookplate by W. F. Hopson). FIRST EDITION, second state (p. [52] unnumbered). Whittier's best-known, and most enduring poem, a long narrative work presented as a series of stories told by a family during a snowstorm, idealizing a return to peace after the Civil War. BAL 21862; Currer, pp. 198-200; Grolier American 100, 73; JWG 277.