Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth & Shepherd, Richard Herne [editor]
The Early Poems Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Now First Collected
Pickering & Co, 196 Piccadilly, 1878, 1st edition. Original cloth, VG. xii+55pp, 8vo, aldine dolphin & anchor device to the title, text printed between ornamental borders at the head & foot of each page, decorated initials, pages unopened, a nice near fine copy, endpapers rather browned & cloth a little rubbed at the edges. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ First collected edition, published by Pickering & printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham, Tooks Court. This edition reprints 17 poems from the United States Literary Gazette & 4 from the Atlantic Souvenir which Longfellow wrote between the ages of 18-19.
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Keywords: poems, poetry, literature