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The Biglow Papers

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Second English edition. John Camden Hotten. London. 1861. 12mo. xvi, 200pp. Title page, Preface to the English edition, Title page of the Boston fourth edition, Note to the title page of original edition. Three hand coloured tissue guarded plates, by Cruikshank. Full grained half calf, cloth, spine in six compartments with raised banding, gilt rules and lettering. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Silk bookmark. Lightly toned, occasional spotting. A nice copy. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). American poet, critic, diplomat and abolitionist. One of the New England Fireside Poets. [Meliboeus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, edited, with an introduction, notes and glossary, and copious index, by Homer Wilbur, A.M.] Satirical verses in Yankee dialect by Lowell, purportedly written by the young New England farmer Hosea Biglow, and edited with a complicated pseudo-critical apparatus by Homer Wilbur, “Pastor of the First Church in Jaalam.” (Oxford Reference)
Author James Russell Lowell
Date 1861
Binding Half calf
Publisher John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly

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