LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH — Poems By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. New Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. These two books have brown cloth covers with gilt lettering to the spines and stamped decorations on the front and rear covers. The books are in Very Good condition and lack dust jackets. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing, small nicks and chips missing (the chips are mostly to the top of the second spine end). The text pages are mostly clean and bright, though there are occasional spots of foxing to the text pages. The first volume has an illustration of the author (black and white) on the front free page. There is an embossed previous owner's name on the title page of both volumes. "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England. Longfellow was born in Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine). He graduated from Bowdoin College and became a professor there and, later, at Harvard College after studying in Europe. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .