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Sacred Poems w/fore-edge painting 1860
Sacred Poems w/fore-edge painting 1860
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Description
Heading: (Fore-Edge Paintings)
Author: Willis, Nathaniel Parker
Title: Sacred Poems
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Clark, Austin & Smith
Date Published: 1860
Description:


Engraved frontispiece, illustrations. (8vo) contemporary gilt-decorated brown morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt-decorated compartments; gilt dentelles, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt.



With fore-edge painting of tall ship at Santa Cruz De Traneriffe. Willis worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day.

Condition
Some scuffing to leather and gilt; ownership stamp to front endpapers, scattered foxing; very good.
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Sacred Poems w/fore-edge painting 1860

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