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publication Details: Published in 1903 (dated in Roman numerals MDCCCCIII on the title page and noted as "Boston, Spring, 1903" in the Publisher's Note) by Houghton, Mifflin and Company at The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Bound in deep royal blue cloth featuring striking, ornate Art Nouveau gilt floral decoration across the front board and spine. Features a frontispiece portrait of Longfellow and "nearly three hundred illustrations" by noted American and English artists (including Edwin Austin Abbey, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, and John Tenniel).
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About the Book: This "Library Edition" compiles all of LonPPPgfellow’s original verse that he wished to preserve, along with his translations (excluding his multi-volume translation of Dante's Divina Commedia), arranged in chronological order with explanatory notes and a biographical sketch.
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Interesting Fact: The front flyleaf bears a charming period ownership signature dated 1905 ("Florence Misteau, 1905"). During the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was so revered internationally that in 1884 he became the first American poet honored with a marble portrait bust in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey in London—a distinction that remains exceptionally rare for non-British writers.
