LOWELL, James Russell.—A Year's Life. By James Russell Lowell . . . Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown. MDCCCXLI. 16mo, citron levant morocco, gilt back, quintuple interlaced fillet on the sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by Chambolle-Duru.
First edition.
LOWELL and CARTER, editors.—The Pioneer. A Literary and Critical Magazine. J. R. Lowell and R. Carter, Editors and Proprietors. January, 1843 [-March, 1843] Vol. 1.—No. I. [-Vol. I.—No. III.] . . . Boston: Leland and Whiting, . . . [Philadelphia: Drew and Scammel, . . .] Royal 8vo, three numbers in one volume, green levant morocco, gilt back, side corners, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
Only these three numbers of this magazine were published. Lowell's articles were never reprinted in his Works, although they have been issued in book form.
Four plates by J. Cheney and J. Andrews (3) after Flaxman, one by Andrews after I. B. Wright, and one drawn and etched by D. C. Johnston.
Lowell's contributions are Introduction and Book Notices, Sonnet (p. 25), The Plays of Thomas Middleton (32-39), Song Writing (73-79), To M. O S. (p. 90), The Street (p. 131).
Poe contributed The Tell-tale Heart (29-31), Lenore (60-61), and Notes upon English Verse (102-112).
Hawthorne contributed The Hall of Fantasy (49-55) and The Birth-Mark (113-119). Mrs. Browning, The Maiden's Death (112). Whittier, Lines written in the Book of a Friend (79-81), and W. W. Story, Longing (29), A Lament (100-102), and John Flaxman (132-140).
LOWELL, James Russell.—Poems by James Russell Lowell. Cambridge: published by John Owen. MDCCCXLIV. 16mo, citron levant morocco, gilt back, quintuple interlaced fillets on the sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by Chambolle-Duru.
First edition. The dedication is dated Cambridge, December 15, 1843.