The Golden Legend

by Henry Longfellow, Wadsworth

£60 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London, David Bogue 1851. 8vo. First Edition. Publisher's dark pink cloth with blind stamped design to boards, extra gilt, pale yellow endpapers, owner's name to neat label attached to free endpaper. Minor wear, sunned to spine; a clean, fresh copy. Longfellow's classic verse, in which the central figure is an alchemist. Item #35128

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