Melibœus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Copious Index, by Homer Wilbur, A.M.

Boston: John Camden Hotten, 1861.

Price: $50.00

Hardcover. Fourth edition. Illustrated by George Cruikshank with only two (of three) color illustrations present including the frontispiece. Two title pages consisting of the Second English edition and the Fourth edition. Blind embossed blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine. A couple of pages including the one illustration loose and laid in, some pages roughly opened, spine darkened, spine ends and corners rubbed and bumped, a good only copy. The color illustrations present are "Birdofredom Sawin, with only one leg to stand upon." and "But glory is a kin' o' thing I shan't pursue no furder."

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Item #250999 Melibœus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Copious Index, by Homer Wilbur, A.M. James Russell LOWELL.
Melibœus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Copious Index, by Homer Wilbur, A.M.
Melibœus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Copious Index, by Homer Wilbur, A.M.

James Russell Lowell
birth name: James Russell Lowell
born: 2/22/1819
died: 8/12/1891

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American poet, critic, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose major significance probably lies in the interest in literature he helped develop in the United States. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore