[Literature] Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. London: David Bogue, 1855 [And:] The Courtship of Miles Standish, and other Poems. London: W. Kent & Co, 1858. First editions, preceding the American editions. 2 volumes bound in one. 8vo. iv, 176 pp ; viii, 135 pp. Contemporary 3/4 brown leather over red cloth boards. First printing of Printed Paper Wrapper issue of Song of Hiawatha (issued simultaneously with the cloth edition and with out the statement "Author's protective edition") and First printing of Miles Standish with the correct pagination. This copy of Song of Hiawatha has the correct first issue points, albeit with different pagination, but printed from the same setting as the cloth bound edition, with the leading removed and slight revision to the text such a p.100 lines 9-11 (cloth) and p. 54 of this printing. The subsequent Boston printings follow this revised edition. BAL 12111; BAL 12121. Without the advertisements bound in.
Condition: Minor rubbing. Occasional spotting. Contemporary signature of Emily Longdon, 1856 on title page.,