Poems
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1849.
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Hardcover. First edition. Two volumes. Octavo. Small contemporary names in each volume, spine ends a bit nicked, a very good set. An apparently unrecorded variant state in original red cloth, elaborately gilt in rococo floral design within gilt triple rules, all edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers. This binding conforms to Blanck's Binding B (no priority established) except that he calls for either brown, green, or slate colored cloth. Binding by Benjamin Bradley. *BAL* 13073. A reprinting of previous work, but with many new poems added.
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James Russell Lowell
birth name: James Russell Lowell
born: 2/22/1819
died: 8/12/1891
Biography
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