THE WHITTIER BIRTHDAY-BOOK
Boston Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1881. First Edition. Leather. 24mo (4 1/2" x 5"), green flexible Morocco, engraved frontispiece of John Greenleaf Whittier plus 12 B&W lithographs for each month with tissue guards, arranged mainly with two dates & poetic quotation per page, silk moiré marbled endpapers, black ribbon marker, all edges gilt (a.e.g.), [2] Preface + 402 pages + [13pp.] Index to Birthdays. Near Fine / None. Item #1806
The author has selected quotations from Whittier's warm and human poetry to illustrate birthdays that the poet might have been interested in.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate for the abolition of slavery. Many considered him and his work a national treasure, causing his birth to be made a holiday in several states. A GEM! Beautiful leather; very clean pages without any personal entries; crisp bright engravings with tissue guards; brilliant gilding to page edges [a.e.g.]. T'would make a marvellous gift book to be cherished, as well as an attractive and handy collection of the poet's memorable verses.
Currier, Whittier Bibliography, p.144. Selections from Whittier's poems with friends, reformers, and others mentioned.
Price: $95.00