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Late 19th Century Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Books including "Evangeline"

Item Details

A collection of books featuring the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This collection features six cloth bound books with gilt lettering and detail work to the spine. The titles include Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1866), The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems (1865), and Hyperion (1869) written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Longfellow Birthday-Book arranged by Fiske Bates (1881); The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language arranged and selected by Francis Turner Palgrave (1888); and The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887).

Title and Author/Editor Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems, and Hyperion (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (Arranged by Francis Turner Palgrave), The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Longfellow Birthday-Book (Arranged by Fiske Bates)
Genre Poetry
Illustrator F. O. C. Darley
Binding Cloth on board
Publisher or Printer Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Ticknor and Fields, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Publication Year 1869, 1888, 1887, 1881, 1866, 1865
Place of Publication Boston, New York
Number of Books 6

Condition

- edge and corner wear; scuffs and markings to covers; toning of pages; some foxing and stains present to pages.

Dimensions

7.0" W x 10.0" H x 6.5" D

- measured as a group; two largest books measure 7″ × 10″.

Item #

18BOS280-071

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