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Handsomely produced poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
Handsomely produced poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
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Author: Whittier, John Greenleaf
Title: Poems
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Benjamin B. Mussey
Date Published: 1849
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Frontispiece portrait, pictorial title-page and eight plates after Hammatt Billings. (8vo) original elaborately gilt-decorated brown cloth; all edges gilt. First Edition.



The handsomely produced first collected poems of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), one of the great American poets of the 19th century. This edition includes all of his poetical work to date, organized by narrative poems based on American legends, his famous anti-slavery poems, memorials and miscellaneous poems. The frontispiece portrait and other engravings after Hammatt Billings are finely executed and this copy includes an eighth plate that is not in the list of illustrations, but is noted in BAL as inserted in some copies. A few years later Billings illustrated the first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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