1893 Longfellow's Poetic Works Four Volume Set

Description

A beautiful set of antique books: "Longfellow's Poetic Works". Published in 1893, with miscellaneous 19th century copyrights by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ernest W. Longfellow, and Copyright 1893 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Published by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Included are volumes I, II, IV, and V. Unfortunately, volume III is missing from the set. Each book has a beautiful frontispiece of Longfellow (a different illustration in each book), plus an etching on the title page. The protective tissue that goes between these is still intact in each book. The books have gilt on the spine and the top edges of the pages, and three of the volumes have an interesting art nouveau bookplate from the original owner. Each book has somewhere between 378 - 471 pages, and measures approximately 6" long x 4" wide x 1" thick.

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Added on Nov 03, 2009