signed Hardcover
1876 · Boston
by LOWELL, James Russell
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1876. Early Edition. Hardcover. Photograph and signature close to Fine. Light soiling to covers; touch of fraying to spine tips. Near Fine. Publisher's gilt-lettered brick cloth. First published in 1870, this copy has pasted to the first blank an early oval-shaped photograph of the poet on a 2-1/4" x 3-3/4" paper mount that is SIGNED "J. R. Lowell/13th June 1861." Lowell is quite uncommon in signed photographs. Chapters on witchcraft and Shakespeare, among others. Armorial bookplate with the name "Raymond" on the front pastedown. (Inventory #: 020932)
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