The Family Library of Poetry and Song. Edited by William Cullen Bryant. Including a Memoir of Bryant by James Grant Wilson. Illustrated. Memorial Edition.. This item is unavailable.

Published by New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. Sold Only by Subscription., 1878

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6 7/8 inches x 10 1/8 in., engraved frontispiece portrait of Bryant; design title-page in red and black; memorial edition title-page; lxxi + pp., 789 pp., including index, illustrated with various facsimilies, and wood engravings. Full dark brown leather with five raised bands on the spine, and gilt titling on the spine and front cover, and blindstamped borders, designs on the spine and covers, beveled edges, inner gilt dentelles on leather turn-ins, all edges gilt; red marbled endpapers. Light wear to cover corners, edges, front inner hinge is slightly weak. more from the title-page: Illustrated with a new Steel Portrait of Mr. Bryant, together with numerous Engravings on Wood, Autographic Fac-Similes of the Handwriting of Celebrated Poets, Full-page Pictures by the best American and English Artists, illustrative of Poems in the work. Weight: 4 1/2 Postage may be extra on this item.

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Bibliographic details

Title
The Family Library of Poetry and Song. Edited by William Cullen Bryant. Including a Memoir of Bryant by James Grant Wilson. Illustrated. Memorial Edition.
Author
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878).
Publisher
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. Sold Only by Subscription.
Publication year
1878
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
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Binding
Hardcover