Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman 1891 Poetry ~ Household Edition ~ Leather Fine Binding ~ Houghton Mifflin

Title: The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman [Household Edition]

Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman

Description: Houghton Mifflin Household Edition (Riverside Press) in a fine leather binding. Latest copyright date is given as 1891; this edition likely published either in 1891 or 1901 [the Riverside Press publisher's device on the title page includes a rising sun].

Outer front hinge is partially split with some loss along top inch; inner hinge is intact; (volume holds together when handled, but needs careful handling). All edges bright gilt; raised bands on spine; boards gilt ruled; dentelle on inner edges of boards; marbled endpapers. Top corner of ffep soiled, otherwise all pages are both clean and crisp. Twelve illustrations on plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Indexes for both the titles and first-lines. xii, 422 pages. 7.8 x 4.9 inches. [Stedman/Gould 118, 211].

The collected poems of Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), American poet, critic and essayist. Includes his early poems (originally published in 1860), sonnets, poems written in youth, Alice of Monmouth and Other Poems (1864), miscellaneous poems, The Blameless Prince and Other Poems (1869), occasional poems, translations, L'Envoi, and later poems.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Place: Boston and New York
Year: 1891