“HE SPEAKS FOR THE INARTICULATE, FOR THE HUMBLE AND THE COMMON”
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. WITH: PICKARD, Samuel T. Whittier's Life and Letters. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, (1892-94). Together, nine volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $2250.
Artists’ Edition, number 580 of only 750 copies.
Illustrated with 52 fine plates, including steel-engraved portraits, photogravures, etchings, and one facsimile, with a second hand-colored copy of one plate in each volume as a frontispiece; Life and Letters includes 20 plates and two hand-colored frontispieces.
Spines evenly toned to brown, a few headcaps expertly repaired. Fine condition.