The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With numerous illustrations / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Book
348 pages. Illustrations. Tissue guarded frontis.
An extremely popular binding design of the 1880s, which was issued by multiple publishers with minimal changes. Note similarity to Tennyson, published by Nims and Knight. Not also the lack of contrast in this green cloth choice for Longfellow, compared to the lighter tan cloth issued two years earlier by the same publisher.
2015.7.96
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1880s
10 in
6-3/4 in
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Complete
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1885
Publisher's Binding- Gold Band Titles
Bound in '80s green beveled cloth with a left vertical and top panel of climbing vine with leaf and flower. Stamped in black and red. Medallion stamping in black to bottom right of Longfellow's home. Title stamped in dark green to rectangular gilt panel on cover, also on vertical length of spine. Dark brown stone endpapers. All edges gilt.
Publication Date: 1885, 1883
"The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" 2015.7.95