The Songs of the Sower (1871)
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The Songs of the Sower (1871)
by William Cullen Bryant
Size 9 x 6 ¾. In English. Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1871. FIRST EDITION. Complete. Brown leather over wooden boards (providing some heft) with elaborate gilt designs. Minor wear to extremities. Marble paste down and end papers. Gold edges. Ownership mark on front end paper, else completely clean. Text block free from any foxing with virtually no signs of use. Very bright. 42 wood engravings. A very good+ copy. The binding without significant wear. Especially well-preserved internally. (The image of the author we included on our website is NOT in the book.)
William Cullen Bryant (1794 – 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the ‘New York Evening Post.’ Poet and literary critic Thomas Holley Chivers said that the "only thing [Bryant] ever wrote that may be called Poetry is 'Thanatopsis', which he stole line for line from the Spanish. The fact is, that he never did anything but steal — as nothing he ever wrote is original." Contemporary critic Edgar Allan Poe, on the other hand, praised Bryant.Price: $135
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Inventory Number: 91035
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