LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.—Kavanagh, a Tale. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. MDCCCXLIX. 16mo, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt over uncut edges, by David.
First edition.
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.—Kavanagh: a tale. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. . . . Illustrated with [40] original designs by Birket Foster, engraved by H. N. Woods. London: W. Kent and Co. . . . MDCCCLVIII. 8vo, cloth, gilt edges.
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.—Kavanagh. Forty touched proofs of the illustrations after designs by Birket Foster, on India paper. [London 1858] 4to, half green morocco.
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.—The Seaside and the Fireside. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields. MDCCCL. 16mo, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Meunier.
First edition.
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.—The Golden Legend. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [woodcut of a cross] Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. M DCCC LI. 12mo, citron levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
First issue of the first edition. "This is one of the few poems of Longfellow in which the text of the first edition differs from that in current impressions, the part spoken by the girl and all allusions to her, in the Refectory scene, being suppressed in later editions."
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.—The Golden Legend. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [woodcut of a cross] Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. M DCCC LII. 12mo, original cloth.
Second issue of the first edition, although dated 1852 instead of 1851. The sheets are the same in both issues.