THE SONG OF THE SOWER; Illustrated with 42 engravings on wood (including 3 by Winslow Homer)
first edition
1881 · NY
by BRYANT, William Culler
NY: Appleton, 1881. First Edition, thus (poems reprinted from THIRTY POEMS, 1864). Winslow Homer. 8vo, pp. 48. Bound in original green cloth stamped in black and gilt, AEG. Several leaves pulled, cover rubbed and faded, some staining and scribbling, fair. BAL 1720. Tatham, #39. Winslow Homer. One is of a Civil War encampment showing the 61st New York Volunteers, the second cattle by a stream and the third an unhappy factory girl working a loom in a scene dominated by machinery. (Inventory #: 55862)