The Early Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Aesthetic Binding), 1890 📜🇺🇸🎄 Immigration History hand-cut design

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Published in 1872

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) was a journalist and author from Georgia

This dish is valuable for its authentic maker's mark and its hand-painted artistry

The Early Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Aesthetic Binding), 1890 📜🇺🇸🎄 Immigration History hand-cut designThis volume is a top shelf example of American decorative bookmaking, containing the early poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Published in 1890 by Houghton, Mifflin, and Company and printed at the prestigious Riverside Press. The book is a later printing of a collected work, but its significance is tied to its material status as an object of 19th Century American art and culture. A personal Christmas inscription from 1905 establishes a direct, 120