WHITTIER, John Greenleaf - Home Ballads and Poems

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Hardcover. 12mo. Half calf and glazed marbled paper over boards, compartments, gilt spine. 296pp. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very good. Slightest bit of minor edgewear; minor tiny chipping at head of spine, barely perceptible; front marbled flyleaf a tad delicate but archivally strengthened, Seemingly the first edition of this noted gathering, though the 16-page advertisement section is not present -- removed, no doubt, at the time of binding. The handsome vintage binding (ca. late 19th century) is strikingly attractive. This book contains the first book appearance of Whittier's well-known poem "Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl" in its earliest form, entitled "The Witch's Daughter." This poem was first published in "The National Era" in 1857," and much later Whittier added a lengthy introductory section and changed the name to "Mabel Martin." Front pastedown bears the lovely armorial bookplate of GEORGE MERRYWEATHER (1794-1871), the oddball English inventor most remembered for his weather predicting "Tempest Prognosticator." A lovely copy in custom binding with an interesting provenance. .

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