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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

1. (HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL; WHITMAN, WALT; WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF; BRYANT,

WILLIAM CULLEN; LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL; LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH; THOREAU,

HENRY DAVID; POE, EDGAR ALLAN; ET. AL.). THE UNITED STATES MAGAZINE AND

DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. VOLUMES 1-15. Washington DC: Langtree & O'Sullivan, 1838-1844; 1848. First Edition. Fifteen volumes bound in fourteen in half

calf leather and marbled boards with calf corners. Includes first or early

publications of 22 stories or articles by Hawthorne, 7 stories by Walt

Whitman, as well as a number of appearances by Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell,

and Whittier and one each by Thoreau and Poe. In addition there are

articles on or reviews of Tocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, Texas and

Mexico, a projected canal on the isthmus (Panama), as well as a number of

articles on banking and finance. The May 1839 issue contains a description

by Samuel Morse of daguerreotypes, recounting his visit that year to

Daguerre in Paris, marking only the second mention of the new invention of

photography in America. Illustrated with 51 (of 53) engraved portraits and

two tinted lithographs of the Yucatan. The set lacks four issues from the

last volume, 1844, and includes issue 95 from Volume 22, 1848, which has

coverage of the Mexican War. Contents mostly clean, just a few pages foxed

including the portraits. Leather is dry on some spines, but all covers are

tight with very little flaking. Very Good set. (#015380) SOLD

2. HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL [LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH]. ASTRAEA

INSCRIBED BY HOLMES TO LONGFELLOW. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. First Edition. BAL 8757: First Printing, State B (A?), Binding A of

original glazed boards; 39 pages: 2500 copies printed of this poem

delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College on 14 August 1850.

INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "H. W.

Longfellow/With the compliments of/O. W. Holmes." An absolutely superb

presentation copy linking two giants of nineteenth century American

Literature. With the bookplate of the Longfellow Collection of Harvard

College Library on the front pastedown, deaccessioned. Dampstain to

slightly more than the lower half of nearly all of the pages but not

affecting the inscription. Spine, as is usually the case, partly eroded.

Still Very Good. One could not hope for a better association. (#009510)

$10,000.00

3. (LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.; WHITTIER, JOHN G.; BRYANT, WILLIAM C.; ET AL.)

KETTELL, SAMUEL (EDITOR). SPECIMENS OF AMERICAN POETRY, WITH CRITICAL

AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829. First

Edition. Three volumes in contemporary half black morocco. Sabin 37655;

BAL 3251. Containing work by 188 American poets from Cotton Mather to John

Greenleaf Whittier, most now all but forgotten and with some surprises

(Ben Franklin), this anthology was an early attempt to "rescue from

oblivion the efforts of native genius" and to establish a national

literature. Kettell supplied biographical sketches as prefaces to the

anthologized pieces of each writer. At the end of Volume 3 is a 14-page

descriptive catalogue of American poetry which cites Poe's TAMERLANE,

published anonymously only two years before, THE FIRST MENTION IN A BOOK

OF EDGAR ALLAN POE OR HIS WORK. Other poets included are William Cullen

Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (this appearance preceding his first

book, as does Whittier's). Some light rubbing to bindings. Old waterstain

to bottom margin of the first ten or so pages of the third volume. A Near

Fine copy of an important anthology. (#003999) SOLD

4. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH (EDITOR). THE ESTRAY: A COLLECTION OF

POEMS. Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1847. First Edition. Original glazed cream boards. BAL 12088: only 1150 copies printed. An anthology with one poem by

Longfellow, the editor, and poems by Blake, Keats, Emerson, Wordsworth,

etc. Faint pencil 1861 owner name on yellow front free endpaper and small

red stamped name of Edward Gassett at the top of the title page. Spine

chipped 3/4" at top deleting the title from the original paper spine label

which is otherwise intact. Neat repaired tear on spine which has a little

fraying along the joints. Faint stain at the bottom of the boards which

are otherwise quite bright as are the contents. A very nice example of

this fragile binding. Very Good and uncommon. (#003274) $150.00

5. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AFTERMATH. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. First British Edition. According to BAL 12164, "Apparently

published simultaneously in Boston and London." Small octavo (4" x 6-1/2")

bound in publisher's gilt-ruled and lettered green cloth, black stamping.

State 1. Presentation Copy by Longfellow INSCRIBED in the poet's distinct hand on the verso of the front endpaper: "Mrs. Theodore Parker/with kind

regards/of the Author/June 11, 1874." Owner name of E. M. Vincent on the

half-title page. Some bubbling to cloth, light rubbing and wear to spine

tips. Very Good and a fine Association Copy. (#017695) $2,000.00

Mrs. Theodore Parker (Lydia Cabot) was the wife of Theodore Parker (1810-

1860) who was a leading abolitionist, American Transcendentalist, and,

along with William Ellery Channing, the most important and influential

Unitarian minister of the nineteenth century. Parker's sermons inspired

speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. Parker wrote in

1850: "A democracy -- that is a government of all the people, by all the

people, for all the people." And it was Parker in 1853 who said, "I do not

pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But

from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice."

6. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER FRAGMENT. The

first two pages of an AUTOGRAPH LETTER on both sides of a 4-1/4" x 7" sheet of paper to "My Dear Sir." In full: "On reaching Freshwater a few

days ago, I had the pleasure of receiving your friendly greeting and the

volume of poems you were kind enough to send me, for both of which I beg

you to accept my warmest thanks. As yet I have had no leisure to read

[your] work; only to pour over the leaves and read here and there some of

the short pieces. Thanks for your translation of 'Doabreak' [?]. It is

very felicitous, and rendered with." The final page or pages with

Longfellow's signature are lacking. Normal folds from mailing. A dark

stain on the verso affecting one letter with a short tear in the margin.

About Very Good. (#017713) SOLD

7. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 24 August 1876. A 4-page letter on an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of paper, folded

once, thanking the recipient for sending him a tribute to Mortimer

Collins. In part: "I never knew him [Collins] personally, but always

thought very highly of his poetic gifts. I was particularly delighted with

a piece of his called 'Music at Shirley Chase,' and wish I could get the

volume that contains it. Perhaps you can tell me whether there is such a

place in reality or whether the title is imaginary only. I should also

like very much to have a photograph of Mr. Collins if there is one to be

had, or even his portrait in a newspaper." SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow." With the stamped envelope addressed by Longfellow to T. W. Littleton Hay.

The writing is on the light side, the ink perhaps having been exposed to

light; normal folds from mailing. Very Good. (#017708) SOLD

The author Mortimer Collins died at the age of 49 on 28 July 1876. He was

the author of several volumes of poetry and fiction including the triple-

decker TRANSMIGRATION (1873), a fantasy of multiple incarnations of which

one is set on a utopian Mars.

8. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 25 April 1880. 2-page letter on two sides of an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet, folded

once, to an unidentified recipient inviting him to dine at his home and

telling him which "horse-car" would be best to take from Boston. SIGNED

"Henry W. Longfellow." Normal mailing folds. Near Fine. (#017711)$400.00

9. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 27 February 1876. A 3-1/2-page letter on both sides of a 9" x 7" sheet of

paper to Mrs. Horsford on his birthday and thanking her for remembering it

with fruits and flowers. Longfellow compares the flowers to the Flower

Dial at Upsala "which marked the hours by the blooming of the flowers,

that composed it. These mark the years on a larger dial, and suggest

perhaps graver thoughts." Longfellow quotes the first stanza, four lines,

of Felicia Dorothea Hemans's poem "The Dial of Flowers." SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow." A touching, poetic letter. A few faint stains where a tissue

engraving, present, was once attached. Near Fine. (#017704) SOLD

Horsford was the wife of Eben Norton Horsford, professor of chemistry at

Harvard and a neighbor of Longfellow's.

10. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 27 November 1871. A 3-page letter on an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of

paper, folded once, to "My Dear Perkins" accepting an invitation to dine

and to meet the Dean of Chester. Longfellow remarks how a Good Samaritan

in the Boston Post Office allowed this invitation to reach him by adding a

2-cent stamp to the envelope, which he has fixed to the facing blank page

as evidence: "This Good Samaritan contributed his two-pence, or a stamp to

that amount, and all is set right again. What a good man he must be!"

SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow." Normal folds. Near Fine. (#017710)

$500.00

ITEM 12: LONGFELLOW ALS, #017707

11. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 29 November 1864. Interesting 1-1/2-page letter on both sides

of a 7-3/4" x 6" sheet of paper, folded, to Miss Smith. In full: "I return

with many thanks the documents you were kind enough to send me- a charming

poem and two very clever letters. I am very glad you did not send yours to

the Emperor. That sly individual would only have laughed in his sleeve!"

SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow." Faint folds. Fine. (#017706) $600.00

12. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Nahant, 4 August 1871. A 3-page letter on three sides of an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of

paper, folded once, to "My Dear Winthrop" regarding a meeting at the

Historical Society with comments on the weather. In part: "This must be a

delightful summer in the country. Thus far it has been almost too cool for

the seaside. But today is full of splendor." SIGNED "Henry W.

Longfellow." Mounted firmly on the verso of the last page to a slightly

larger piece of stiff paper, otherwise Near Fine. (#017707) $400.00

13. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 6 February 1872. A 2-page letter on both sides of a 4-1/2" x 7"

sheet of paper to Miss Hattie, concerning the symbolism of the cross and

the inscription in the church of St. Pierre de Dorat. In part: "In the

wall of the church of St. Pierre de Dorat, in France, is sculpted a cross

with the inscription 'Lux Drux, Lex Rex.' It represents the cross as the

Light and Leader, the Law and Ruler of the world. These all centre in the

Cross and radiate from it....." SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow." Faint folds

from mailing. Fine. (#017705) SOLD

14. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 7 November 1869. A 3-1/2-page letter on an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of

paper, folded once, to "My Dear Mrs. Lawrence" on his stay in Florence. In

part: "Friday is certainly an unlucky day; for on Friday I called at your

hotel and was so unfortunate as not to find you.... I saw more than once

the sunny Torrigiani gardens, and the empty house. I saw also many friends

of yours, who regretted your absence, and spoke of you as you would like

to be spoken of; and finally I shook hands with you in Powers' Studio,

which was a kind of welcome and farewell to Florence." SIGNED "Henry W.

Longfellow." Normal folds from mailing. Near Fine. (#017709) $500.00

15. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 8 October 1872. A 2-1/2-page letter with his initials on three

sides of a 7-3/4" x 4-7/8" sheet of paper, folded once, to his publisher

James Fields. In full: "I want you and Mrs. Fields, with all your guests,

to come to supper after W. MacDonald's lecture at the Port on Thursday

evening next. Will you arrange this little party, and let me know if it be

possible? And do you think it will be agreeable to the Lecturer? I enclose

a note of invitation to him [not present]." SIGNED "H. W. L." Normal fold

from mailing. Near Fine. (#017712) $400.00

16. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED from

Longfellow's Translation of Dante's DIVINE COMEDY. n.p., n.d.. On a 6" x 9" endpaper removed from an early printing of a volume of

Longfellow's translation of Dante's DIVINE COMEDY, the poet has written

the first 3 lines of Canto III from the poem and has SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" at the conclusion: "I enter, and I see thee in the gloom/Of

the long aisles, O poet Saturnine!/And strive to make my steps keep pace

with thine." Chipping to the edges of the somewhat fragile paper but with

no effect at all on Longfellow's writing which is dark and bold. Near

Fine. (#017700) $1,500.00

On 9 July 1861 while Longfellow was napping, his wife Fanny accidentally

lit her dress on fire. Longfellow tried to smother the flames first with a

rug and then with his body, but the burns were fatal and Fanny died the

next morning. Longfellow was burned badly enough that he was unable to

attend her funeral and thereafter wore a beard which became his

trademark.After Fanny's death, the poet took refuge in translating Dante's

DIVINE COMEDY, a task that would occupy much of his time for the next

several years. To assist him in the translation, he invited friends--

William Dean Howells, James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton and other

occasional guests--to weekly meetings of "The Dante Club." Longfellow's

translation, the first by an American, was published in 1867 and revised

by him at later dates.

17. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin,

(1903). Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/4") bound in full tree calf with gilt-

decorated borders and spine, contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine

labels, gilt dentelles, and all edges gilt. (xxi), 689 pages; frontispiece

portrait of Longfellow. Contents crisp. Minor rubbing to joints and spine

tips but quite fresh overall with covers firm. Near Fine in handsome tree

calf binding. (#011695) $150.00

18. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH,

AND OTHER POEMS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. First Edition. Original brown cloth with brown endpapers. First Printing with October ads and

"treacherous" for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. BAL 12122. Ad leaf not

present in this copy but stub indicates it once was. Small old

Pennsylvania bookseller's label on pastedown partly obliterated. Mild

rubbing to covers. About Fine. (#003246) $450.00

19. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH,

AND OTHER POEMS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. First Edition. Original brown cloth with brown endpapers. BAL 12122. First Printing with the

October catalogue and "treacherous" for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. One

of the copies with the inserted ad for Ticknor & Field's edition of the

Waverley Novels at the front endpaper. Pencil signature of Virginia

Beasley dated 1858 on the first blank. Touch of wear to spine tips, light

spotting of covers. Near Fine. (#003285) $500.00

20. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE HANGING OF THE CRANE. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. First Edition. Small quarto (6-1/2" x 8-3/4") bound

in full red crushed levant leather with gilt fillet borders and decorative

spine and turn-ins with watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. BAL 12166:

First Issue of page 37. SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1875 on a front blank and with a contemporary carte-de-visite portrait of him

mounted to the following front blank. Very minor wear. About Fine.

(#017698) $1,500.00

In 1874, Longfellow sold "The Hanging of the Crane" to the New York Ledger

for $3,000, the highest price ever paid for a poem to that date.

21. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 2 November

1881. A 1-1/4-page LETTER SIGNED on both sides of a 4" x 7" sheet of paper to "Dear Mr. Holmes" [likely Oliver Wendell Holmes]. In full: "I

should be delighted to see Mr. & Mrs. Collier & yourself, on Monday, as

you proposed, but unfortunately, I am confined to my room by indisposition

& forbidden by my physician to see any one. Please express to Mr. & Mrs.

Collier my extreme regret at losing the pleasure of their visit. The

letter is written in a secretarial hand but is SIGNED by Longfellow who would die the following March. Normal folds from mailing. Fine. (#017714)

$250.00

22. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE NEW-ENGLAND TRAGEDIES. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First Edition. Decorated green cloth. BAL 12150.

First Printing in Binding A with unbattered type. Slight cracking of rear

hinge. Bright, lovely copy, about Fine. (#004128) SOLD

23. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. POEMS. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. Fourth Edition. Quarto (5-3/4" x 9") bound in publisher's full black

gilt-decorated morocco leather, recently and neatly rebacked retaining the

original spine, 415 pages. Illustrated with an engraved title page and

numerous other full-page plates by D. Huntington engraved by various

American artists. A Presentation Copy from Longfellow INSCRIBED in the poet's distinct hand: "Dr. Campbell/with the regards of/The Author./June

1847." Plates are foxed to various degrees; otherwise, the contents are

quite clean. Very Good or better with a rare inscription by Longfellow.

(#008626) $950.00

24. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE POEMS OF LONGFELLOW. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full grained

black sheepskin leather with gilt stamping and each page ruled in red; 472

pages. Edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Copy #106 of 1100

illustrated with 28 lovely full-page and part-page color wood engravings

by Boyd Hanna and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly

Letter laid in. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Minor rubbing to spine

tips; light wear and sunning to slipcase, which is intact. An uncommon

book to find in this condition. Near Fine in a Good to Very Good slipcase.

(#013469) $200.00

25. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE POEMS OF LONGFELLOW. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full grained

red sheepskin leather with gilt stamping and each page ruled in red; 472

pages. Edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Copy #309 of 1100

illustrated with 28 lovely full-page and part-page color wood engravings

by Boyd Hanna and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Minor

rubbing to tips of spine which is slightly darkened with a few light

scratches. Still Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. (#017061) $175.00

26. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY

WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1877. First

Edition. The Author's Edition: quarto (6-3/8" x 8-3/4") bound in 3/4 brown

morocco leather and green boards with gilt rules, five raised bands, and a

gilt-lettered and decorated spine, top edge gilt; iv, 644 pages.

Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Longfellow and 180 designs by

Sir John Gilbert, R.A., engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Contents

generally clean, occasional light foxing. Minor rubbing to joints and

spine tips with the lower rear corner rather severely bumped. Contents

clean; some rubbing to the joints. Very Good with wonderful illustrations.

(#011959) $100.00

27. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY

WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880.

Revised Edition. Four volumes in two thick octavo (5" x 7-1/2") volumes in

publisher's gilt-decorated and lettered brick red cloth, all edges gilt.

BAL 12584. EACH volume is SIGNED by the poet on the title page as "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1881. Bright, close to Fine and very scarce when

signed. (#017697) $2,000.00

28. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. SAGGI DE NOVELLIEIRI ITALIANI

D'OGNI SECOLO. Boston: Gray E. Bowen, 1832. First Edition. Original rose muslin; paper spine label lacking. BAL 12049: all errors noted except page

80; neither page numbering error present. Old signature of J[ohn] T.

Stoddard on half title. Front endpaper lacking as is bottom portion only

of the rear. Light to moderate foxing. Covers tight, clean. Very Good or

better copy of this early Longfellow title. (#011957) $350.00

29. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. SIGNATURE. n.p., n.d. Bold, dark

SIGNATURE of the Fireside poet on a 3-1/4" x 1" slip of paper neatly mounted on a 4-3/4" x 2-1/2" paper. Dated 1881 by the poet. Fine.

(#017703) $150.00

30. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. SIGNED CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH. Boston: Warren, n.d. A fine 4-1/4" x 6-1/2" cabinet card photograph of a

seated elderly Longfellow SIGNED on the verso "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1875 by the poet. Clear dark image and signature. About Fine.

(#017701) $1,750.00

31. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. SIGNED CARTE-DE-VISITE

PHOTOGRAPH. Boston: Warren, n.d. A fine 2-7/16" x 4-1/4" carte-de-visite

photograph of a standing full-bearded Longfellow SIGNED on the verso

"Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1864 by the poet. Mild fading to the image

with some letters just a little light in the signature. Still Near Fine.

(#017702) $1,000.00

32. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition. First Printing in original green

cloth. BAL 12136: Catalog A. Engraved title page. Contains "The Children's

Hour" as well as the poet's famous account of Paul Revere's ride and the

line Revere never uttered: "One, if by land, and two, if by sea." Some

fading to cloth but a clean, unworn Very Good copy. (#017696) $350.00

33. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. VOICES OF THE NIGHT. Cambridge: John Owen, 1839. First Edition. Bound in modern 3/4 chocolate brown

morocco leather with gilt-ruled spine retaining the half title but not the

original endpapers. BAL 12065. Second state with altered textual readings

of pages (v), 18, and 78 but original reading of page 23. Longfellow's

first book of poems, preceded by some translations and a book of sketches.

Occasional soiling to text. Near Fine copy in an attractive binding.

(#008623) $600.00

ITEM 34: INSCRIBED BY LONGFELLOW TO HIS SON #017699

34. [LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH] CROWE, J. A. A HISTORY OF PAINTING

IN ITALY, FROM THE SECOND TO THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. London: John Murray, 1864. First Edition. Three octavo (5-3/4" x 9") in publisher's

gilt-decorated green cloth. Illustrated with 99 plates. A Presentation

Copy from Longfellow INSCRIBED TO HIS SON in the poet's distinct hand on the first blank: "Ernest W. Longfellow/with his father's love/and good

wishes./June 1, 1876." In addition the poet has written his son's name

with the date 1876 on the first blanks of the other two volumes. Some

scattered foxing, generally very clean; minor spotting to cloth. Very Good

and a scarce family Association Copy. (#017699) $2,500.00

Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845_1921) was the second of the famed poet's

six children. He was an established artist at the time of receiving these

volumes from his father, having exhibited at the National Academy of

Design in 1871 and 1875; the Williams & Everett gallery in Boston in 1875;

the 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia; and later at the Boston Museum of

Fine Arts and the St. Botolph Club in 1880.

ITEM 35: SIGNED ENGRAVED PORTRAIT #017715

35. [LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH] MARSHALL, WILLIAM EDGAR. ORIGINAL

SIGNED ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF LONGFELLOW. Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1881. Original, large engraved portrait of Longfellow surrounded by

vignette scenes from his best-loved poems (Hiawatha, Blacksmith, Hesperus,

Revere, etc.), with plenty of room for all as the engraving measures @ 21"

x 30" and is on its original 25-1/4" x 34" stretcher set in a white wooden

frame that measures 29-1/2" x 38-1/4." SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" in pencil at the lower center and in pencil by Marshall in the lower right

corner. Some areas of very light foxing but Very Good overall and quite

uncommon. (#017715) $1,250.00

William Edgar Marshall began his life in art as an engraver of watch-

cases, graduated to vignette work for the American Bank Note Company, and

studied painting in Europe in 1863-65. He returned to America in the

latter year, when he painted and engraved a portrait of the late President

Lincoln. In 1866 he opened a studio in New York, where he painted and

engraved portraits of many distinguished 19th-century Americans for the

next forty years.

36. [LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH]. HYPERION, A ROMANCE. New York: Sameul Colman, 1839. First Edition. Two volumes in original tan paper

boards. BAL 12064: Setting A. State with later brown endpapers. Wright I

1707: "Switzerland & Germany." Longfellow's second of three novels. A

cryptic pencil inscription on the half title of the first volume: "O.W.G.

from H.D." We'd like to think it's from Thoreau but are unable to justify

that claim. Very light foxing in the first volume, heavier in the second.

Front joints partly or mostly cracked, very thin and still very tight.

Original paper spine labels, darkened on the second volume where the spine

also has a vertical crack down its entire length that was once neatly

repaired with glue. Some chipping to the spine tips, mostly the heels and

quite typical for this binding. Very Good in its original and fragile

binding. (#003244) $350.00

37. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. [THE WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH

LONGFELLOW]. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1889/1891. Eleven

octavo (5" x 7-7/8") volumes, illustrated with frontispieces and bound in

1/2 brown polished calf and marbled boards with matching corners and

endpapers and eloquently gilt-decorated and lettered spines. Consists of

six volumes of the POETICAL WORKS, two volumes of the PROSE WORKS, and

three volumes of Longfellow's TRANSLATION OF DANTE'S DIVINA COMMEDIA.

Minor wear and rubbing to corners, joints, edges, and spines. One cover

with a short split to one joint; several volumes with a little wear to the

spine tips. Contemporary owner gift inscription in one volume. Very Good

with a bright shelf appearance. (#011642) $950.00