COLLECTORS’ HAND-BOOK.
A Bibliography of First Editions.
ONLY 250 COPIES PRINTED.
12mo, half parchment, $1.50.
This little manual contains exact transcripts of the titles, collations, and detailed descriptions, in order of publication, of every book written or edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It is of particular value to collectors, librarians and booksellers, because it describes the anonymous works and the text-books published when Longfellow was a professor at Bowdoin College.
“Book collectors have recently devoted increased attention to making up sets of the first editions of leading American authors. Hawthorne, Longfellow, Poe, Lowell, Irving, Whittier, Holmes and many others, all have their admirers, who search the bookstalls, ransack old libraries, and even of late fill the advertising columns of the booksellers’ journals with lists of their wants and the prices they are willing to pay for them. All who have engaged in the delightful excitement of book-hunting must have at times met with difficulties, owing to the small amount of bibliographical data obtainable in print. With the hope of supplying this want, so far as the works of Longfellow are concerned, this bibliography is modestly offered.”—Extract from Preface.
This book was first published by William Evarts Benjamin before the formation of the present firm.