first edition
1887 · New York
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1887. First Edition in book form.. In its original illustrated binding of light green cloth covered boards with gilt text and gilt, black and red decorations on the front board. A small octavo of 8 by 6 1/4 inches with an early prior owner's name and Christmas notation of 1886 on the second free end page. Without a dust jacket, but protected in a clear acetate cover. Unpaginated, but containing 16 leaves and printed on both rectos and versos. Illustrated with a frontispiece from and engraving and 11 images from engravings by various artists. This poem first appeared in 1841 in The Boston Book Being Specimens of (truncated)
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