The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Complete in Two Volumes.
Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1857. Hardcover. 24mo. 13.5cm, in 2 vols., vii,320 & vi,303pp., engraved frontis portrait, volume notes, in full brown morocco, blind ruled raised bands, black stamped decorations and borders in the panels and on the upper and lower covers, gilt spine titles, bevelled boards, blind decorated inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., a near fine set (ds1). ~ An attractively bound edition of Whittier's poems with his own preface: There are pieces in this collection which I would "willingly let die", I am free to confess. But, it is now too late to disown them and I must submit to the inevitable penalty of poetical as well as other sins'. The frontispiece is an engraved portrait of Whittier by American artist, Stephen Alonzo Schoff. Item #31216
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