The Early Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Aesthetic Binding), 1890 📜🇺🇸🎄 Natural History 1950s–1970s)

1950s–1970s)

Scalloped Leaf/Shell Form

The frontispiece illustration

transforming it from a simple object into a historical document

The Early Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Aesthetic Binding), 1890 📜🇺🇸🎄 Natural History 1950s–1970s)This volume is a top shelf example of American decorative bookmaking, containing the early poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Published in 1890 by Houghton, Mifflin, and Company and printed at the prestigious Riverside Press. The book is a later printing of a collected work, but its significance is tied to its material status as an object of 19th Century American art and culture. A personal Christmas inscription from 1905 establishes a direct, 120