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    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Boston   Ticknor and Fields
    7.5" by 5" v, [3], 225, [3], 22pp
    A first issue copy of this poetry collection set in a Massachusetts Inn, written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    1863 Tales of a Wayside Inn

    Boston   Ticknor and Fields
    7.5" by 5" v, [3], 225, [3], 22pp
    A first issue copy of this poetry collection set in a Massachusetts Inn, written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
    £190.00
    : 0.75kgs / : 881P24
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition, first issue, with page 11 of the publisher's adverts to the rear stating 'The Wayside Inn, and Other Poems. 1 vol. 16mo. Nearly Ready'. A price for the title was given in later issues. This first edition was an initial print run of 15,000 copies. 

    'Tales of a Wayside Inn' is a collection of poetry by the eminent American bard Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poems, in a similar vein to Chaucer's 'Tales', follows a group of people who frequent the Wayside Inn, in Sudbury, Massachusetts. 

    The characters telling tales at the Wayside Inn are based on real people.

    Illustrated with an engraved title. 

    Twenty-two pages of adverts to the rear, dated November 1863. 

    Collated, complete.

    Bookplate of J. C. Whitridge to the front paste down.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Spine and extremities of the boards are faded. Minor rubbing and a few small marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, a very small amount of loss to the head of the spine. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. The occasional pencil note to the text.

    Good

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