Hardcover
1869 · Boston
by Lowell, James Russell
Boston: Fields, Osgod, & Co, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, State A, Binding A (BAL 13129), and scarce thus. One of 1000 copies printed in Nov 1868, with the erratum slip at page 286-287. On page 97 is the erroneously numbered 7 (instead of 5 corrected later) and on page 224, line 3 of the second stanza is Thy (which in this copy has been corrected in pencil.) Green cloth with gilt-pressed willow upper and blind-stamped lower, gilt to spine, beveled edges. Some piercing of cloth upper right corner front and narrow surface loss at head and foot of spine. Ownership name in pencil dated January 1869 on fly. Pasted onto fly verso across from title is engraved portrait of Lowell from a later publication. Housed in a half-leather slipcase.
(Inventory #: 012925)