Morris, George P. and Nathaniel Parker Willis (editors) — The Mirror Library

New York, Morris & Willis, 1844. Hardcover. Marled green boards with quarter leather. Gilt raised bands and lettering on spine. 768 total pp. with no illustrations. The Mirror Library was a periodical edited and published by Morris and Willis, beginning in the 1840s. They also published the New Mirror. This volume contains complete sections from different editions, but there is no publication information in any of the text material. There are 21 total stand-alone sections mostly of either 16 or 32 pages in length. The focus of nearly all "articles" centers on poetry and song/ballad lyrics: Irish Melodies, Lall Rookh, Gems of Scottish Song, Sacred Poems of Mrs. Hemans, Songs of Hebrew Melodies, Evenings in Greece, and more. One section, pp. 1-32, is followed by an "extra", continuous section, pp. 33-48, but it is from the New Mirror. The final three sections are Pencillings By the Way: Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel - Franch, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Turkey, and England (N.P. Willis, viii + 216 pp. the first complete edition), all narrative letters; Letters from Under a Bridge, also by Willis (32 pp.); Lecture on Fashion (Willis, 16 pp. - a lecture delivered to the New York Lyceum); and The Epicurean: A Tale (32. pp). Customary reading for the era. Wonderful condition. VG, clean and bright interior but with inscription in pencil. Covers wearing at edges and spine edges. Binding tight. Individual parts of The Mirror Library bound together in original 19th C. binding.