Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. The first volume, dedicated to poetry, only. (A second volume dealing with prose was published in 1883.) Octavo. x, 598pp. Publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in black and gilt. Owner name on front fly, modest general wear, a nice very good or better copy. An expansive and relatively uncommon introduction to English-language poetry, with poems arranged by kind: chapters on Anglo-Saxon poetry, story-telling poetry, dramatic poetry and the drama, epic poetry, satirical poetry, and didactic poetry, among others. At the time of writing, Baldwin was the Superintendent of Schools in Huntington, Indiana. He would go on to be a prolific author, sales of his many books reportedly reaching over 1,000,000 copies annually for several years.

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