The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Book
348 pages. With numerous illustrations. Tissue guarded frontis.
An extremely popular binding design of the 1880s, which was issued by multiple publishers with minimal changes.
2015.7.97
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1880s
10 in
6-1/2 in
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
circa 1880
Riverside Press
Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
North America
Publisher's Binding- Gold Band Titles
Bound in brick colored beveled cloth in a delicate line floral pattern with a left vertical panel of climbing vine with leaf and flower. Stamped in black and red. Title stamped in black to rectangular panel on cover, also on vertical length of spine. Beige floral endpapers. All edges gilt.
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