AN APRIL DAY. Manuscript copy with original watercolours.

LONGFELLOW. HENRY WADSWORTH.

Verlag: No place. No date. Circa 1870, 1870

Beschreibung

ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT. Oblong 8vo. (9.4 x 5.5 inches). Longfellow's popular eearly poem, An April day, written in a neat hand on 12 thick paper leaves. Ten of the leaves are beautifully illustrated in watercolour by an unknown but very skilled artist. Bound in attractive nineteenth century full red morocco. Spine with multiple gilt ruled lines and three raised bands. Both boards have a highly decorative gilt roll and ruled lines border around a double ruled and corner decorated blind tooled panel. The front board has the title and author lettered in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles and yellow coated endpapers. All edges gilt. A little rubbing to the extremities but overall a beautiful volume in very good condition. --- More photos available on request. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10782

Bibliografische Details

Titel: AN APRIL DAY. Manuscript copy with original ...

Verlag: No place. No date. Circa 1870

Erscheinungsdatum: 1870

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: Illustrated Edition