first edition Hardcover
1847 · Boston
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth, edited by
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co, 1847. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Publisher's glazed cream paper over boards with a printed paper spine label. Contemporary gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper, slight foxing, a few tiny tears at the crown, else a fine copy, housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase with a red leather spine label stamped in gold. Edited by Longfellow, this anthology opens with his "Proem," later collected in *The Seaside and the Fireside* as "Pegasus in Pound." A bright, handsome copy. *BAL* 12088.
(Inventory #: 76888)