by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1891) [ca. 1905].*

First edition thus.

Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1882 with a different binding, different type, different page format, and different illustrations.

The complete poetic works include Longfellow's songs, narrative poems, plays in verse, sonnets, preludes, and poems.

Contains lovely illustrations throughout from previous other magazine and book publications.

Deluxe decorative vintage binding in a scarce dust jacket.

Upper and lower spine edges and corner tips lightly rubbed, partial hairline cracks to inner hinges, still quite sound and holding, else very good plus in bright ribbed burgundy linen with cream embossed titles surrounded by raised burgundy floral decorations to a black decorative border to the front cover and with leafed vine decorations embossed in black to the spine; in an about good tan dust jacket with front panel that mimics the decorations and titles of the front cover in green and brown, clear tape reinforcing to the verso at the edges; chips and wear to the shelf-edges and fold-lines, a 1.5 inch piece missing from the lower spine end, some darkening to the spine panel.

Octavo; 348 pages; 12 pages of annotated notes; index; plus 4 contents pages; plus 4 pages of ads.

Rare 19th-Century dust jacket.

*Note: According to B.A.L. this book was possibly issued circa 1905.

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