Author: WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
Title: At Sundown
Description: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Hardcover. Designs by E.H. Garrett. 12mo. Tan linen with gilt lettering and decorations. 70pp (rectos only). Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 8 full-page plates. Very good. Mild cloth soiling. Tight, handsome second printing of the 1892 edition, which is an expanded edition of the privately printed, limited 1890 edition. Front flyleaf bears ownership signature of Emma Ely Parmenter (1870-1966), Milwaukee pianist, singer and musician and wife of noted attorney Leo Nohl; while inner flyleaf bears pencilled 1893 nonauthorial gift inscription to Parmenter's mother. A lovely copy. .

Keywords: Poetry


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