Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow With Extracts from his Journals and Correspondence (2 Volumes) together with Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886. First Edition. "Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow..." #6 of 25 copies reserved for England (of a large paper printing limited to 300 numbered copies). 8vo. viii; 433pp.(BAL 122258)
"Final Memorials..." one of 15 copies (unnumbered) reserved for England (of the large paper printing of 300 copies). 8vo. vi; 447pp. vi;483pp.( BAL 12260 - this limited English edition not described).
Engraved frontispiece (with tissue guard) portrait of Longfellow in each volume depicting him at different ages. Engraved plates with tissue guards in each vclume. Lovely later three-quarter maroon leather and white buckram; new endpapers; original deckled page edges. Minor smudging on whate buckram else a fine and lovely set. Item #13437
Samuel Longfellow was the older brother of Henry W. Longfellow. Following his brother's death in 1882, Samuel Longfellow published this two-volume biography of him in 1886, writing while living at his brother's former home, Craigie House in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He subsequently wrote "Final Memorials..." in 1887.
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