Item #7843 SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs. John Burroughs.
SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs
SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs
SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs
SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs
SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs
SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs
SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs
SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs

SONGS OF NATURE; Edited by John Burroughs

New York: McClure Phillips & Co., 1901. Second Impression in same year as first. Cloth. INSCRIBED & SIGNED boldly by John Burroughs on ffe to Harriet M.D. Benton from Charlie [Benton] with the addtional inscription "and inscribed by Charlie's old friend John Burroughs"; 8vo (7 3/4" x 4 7/8"); publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front cover with large blindstamped flower; frontispiece is a fine B&W photo of Burroughs with tissue guard; designed and embellished title page with B&W flowers & capital letters by William Jordan; Introduction [v-x pp.] by John Burroughs; contains poems by 122 famous and less well known poets and authors; top edge gilt with others untrimmed, [Indices:] Index by Authors, Bird Poems, Flower Poems, Poems of Nature, x + 359 pages. Near Fine / None. Item #7843

John Burroughs (1837 – 1921) was a distinguished American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement.

Inscribed by Charlie [Benton] "and inscribed by Charlie's old friend John Burroughs". With the bookplate of Charles E. Benton, the author of Troutbeck: A Dutchess County Homestead. John Burroughs had written an introduction to that book. A handsome association copy of nature poetry edited and SIGNED by the great American naturalist.

Contains a variety of nature, bird, and seasonal poems (sometimes a few by each) by 122 poets and authors: from masters like Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bobby Burns, though the Romantics (Keats, Shelley, Byron), Fireside Poets . Tennyson, Longfellow, Emerson, to "moderns" like Celia Thaxter. Also many less well known but outstanding--often 19th century--poets.

Tight, clean copy without foxing. Some sunning and fading to green cloth. Brilliant fontispiece photo. Light uniform age-toning with some thin edgebrowning to pages.

Sunning to spine and along top edges; mild toning to leaves; very good or better.

Price: $475.00

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