The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

with very useful explanatory notes.

1907, antique, hardback book, Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons.  Sept 1907

“Messer’s Nelson’s dainty New Century Library.”

A luxurious pocket-sized reprint series. Highly collectible.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth ((February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882))

CONTAINS:

Early poems / Voices of the night / Birds of passion / Ballads / Poems on Slavery / The Spanish Student / The seaside and the fireside / The Golden Legend / The song of Hiawatha / The courtship of Miles Standish / Songs / Sonnets / Miscellaneous Poems / TRANSLATIONS, (from Italian, French, Anglo-Saxon, German, Swedish, Danish.) / NOTES.

A very comprehensive coverage of his poems: Paul Revere’s Ride, Carillon, Dante, daylight and Moonlight, Endymion, The Lover’s

Errand, Priscilla, The Hemlock Tree, Prometheus, The sailing of the Mayflower, Hiawatha’s wedding feast, The song of Hiawatha,The slave singing at midnight, and many, many more.

This is a high-quality printed item:

A packed 756 pages: A superb, thin, high-quality paper and excellent printing.

Royal India paper is an exceptionally thin, lightweight, yet opaque and durable paper traditionally used for printing bulky texts like Bibles, dictionaries, etc.

A red leather binding with decorated spine with gilt title and stylistic roses.

Black endpapers. Gilt page edges. 

A fine, b&w frontispiece of Longfellow with a printed signature. The title page is elegant with black and red, Art Nouveau printed decoration. 

Priced around Two Shillings in1907.

Watford Higher Elementary School Prize slip, pasted in fep , – Awarded to Dorothy Bowley for English ~ Literature.

July 1914 signed by the Head Master A E Adkins M A Oxon.

Good genealogy leads?

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