The Early Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Aesthetic Binding), 1890 📜🇺🇸🎄 Natural History Edition/Rarity: Later Illustrated Edition

Edition/Rarity: Later Illustrated Edition

Chapter 3: About the Author ✍️🏛️

Author/Maker: Margaret Mitchell

The frontispiece illustration

The binding shows signs of wear

The Early Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Aesthetic Binding), 1890 📜🇺🇸🎄 Natural History Edition/Rarity: Later Illustrated EditionThis volume is a top shelf example of American decorative bookmaking, containing the early poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Published in 1890 by Houghton, Mifflin, and Company and printed at the prestigious Riverside Press. The book is a later printing of a collected work, but its significance is tied to its material status as an object of 19th Century American art and culture. A personal Christmas inscription from 1905 establishes a direct, 120