Poems of the Old South .

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, and James Freeman Clarke. Illustrated by Poetry

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Boston: Old South Fair Committee, 1879. The rare deluxe autograph edition, published two years after the trade edition. Signed or inscribed by each of the six poets. Small octavo 7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 180 x 147 mm . 2 , 35, 1, blank pp. With a sheet signed by each of the authors inserted to face the beginning of their respective poem. With frontispiece, historiated initials and engraved vignettes throughout.

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