first edition
1853 · London
by (BINDINGS - HAMPSTEAD BINDERY). LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
London: David Bogue, 1853. FIRST EDITION. 205 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/4"). xii, [2], 304 pp.
ANIMATED CREAM-COLORED MOROCCO, INLAID AND GILT, BY THE HAMPSTEAD BINDERY (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with inlaid crimson morocco arabesque at center tooled with gilt circles and stippling surrounded by swirling gilt vines with inlaid green morocco flowers, smooth spine tooled with similar vines and with inlaid red morocco title banner, VELLUM DOUBLURES and endleaves framed with gilt tendrils that extend two inlaid green morocco flowers onto the doublures, all edges gilt. With nearly one hundred engravings on wood, from drawings by Birket Foster. (truncated)
ANIMATED CREAM-COLORED MOROCCO, INLAID AND GILT, BY THE HAMPSTEAD BINDERY (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with inlaid crimson morocco arabesque at center tooled with gilt circles and stippling surrounded by swirling gilt vines with inlaid green morocco flowers, smooth spine tooled with similar vines and with inlaid red morocco title banner, VELLUM DOUBLURES and endleaves framed with gilt tendrils that extend two inlaid green morocco flowers onto the doublures, all edges gilt. With nearly one hundred engravings on wood, from drawings by Birket Foster. (truncated)