The Estray, presentation copy to his father

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Lot 42 | The Estray, presentation copy to his father
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The Estray, presentation copy to his father

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1847

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882), editor. The Estray. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847.



Author's presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed to his father: "Hon. S. Longfellow / with the affectionate remembrances of its Editor / January 1 1847." Longfellow edited this poetry collection, containing classics of Anglophone poetry from Ben Jonson to Whittier; he contributed the proem. An attractive family association copy. BAL 12088.



Octavo (183 x 113mm). Original cream boards, yellow coated endpapers (joined cracked and top panel of spine chipped away revealing binder's waste of printed advertisements); modern folding case. Provenance: Stephen Longfellow, 1776-1849, jurist, Maine congressman, and father of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (presentation inscription).

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