Poems Of Places. Scotland. Volume 1 (Of 2) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Editor) 19Th Century American Literature,Literature: American,Scotland,Signed

Gilt and black-stamped green cloth with all edges stained red (4" x 6"); x, 246 pages. The first volume, of two, of poems about Scotland edited by Longfellow and including contributions by Burns, Scott, Wordsworth, and others. INSCRIBED on the verso of the dark green front endpaper and SIGNED by the editor: "Professor Boyeson/with kind regards/of the Editor./Jan. 7, 1877./Henry W. Longfellow." Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen was a Norwegian-American author and college professor. He is best remembered for his novel GUNNAR: A TALE OF NORSE LIFE, which is generally considered to have been the first novel by a Norwegian immigrant in America. Armorial bookplate of Henry Payne McIntosh on the front pastedown with an old auction clipping on the front endpaper. On the blank page opposite the page with the inscription is written in dark ink: "Bangs & Co. Sale, Jany 4/1900 $10xx." Bright, clean, and Fine