LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL — Among My Books, Second Series

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. Hardcover. A collection of five essays discussing the work of notable literary figures including Dante, Spenser, Wordsworth, Milton and Keats. Author James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was a Cambridge, Massachusetts romantic poet and literary critic. --- In bevel-edge olive cloth-covered boards with author facsimile signature in gilt to cover, gilt-stamped spine titling and TEG (top edge gilt) with black endpapers. --- Overall, a well-preserved, tightly-bound copy, though with inked notation to front endpaper, some light chafing to cloth extremities.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; [6], 327, 14 (ads) pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .