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Book Condition: Used Near Fine
Jacket condition: No Jacket
Seller: 100 POCKETS

United States
About Item: New York, NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1878. Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/trace soiling to fEP & pgs 73-77, else Bright, Clean, As New. Gilt embossed brown linen boards/NF w/rubs to leading edges & corner tips. DJ/None. Gilted text edges in good order. Frontispiece: tissue cover portrait of William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) who published satires against Jefferson's administration in The Embargo (1808) at the age of 14, and was later Editor-in-Chief of the New York Evening Post for near half century. His fame as a poet dates from the printing of Thanatopsus (1817). This illustrated (including works by B. Foster) anthology carries a note to the reader from Bryant dated 1871 from which we know this edition. edited by himself, contains "poems which have not appeared in any previous collection", and are presented in the chronological order in which they were written. Contents arranged: I, Poems; II, Translations; and, III, Later Poems, followed by Notes. Fine copy.
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