Hyperion: a Romance
( B. FOSTER ) LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
FINE COPY: FOSTER'S ILLUSTRATIONS IN SIGNED OLDFIELD BINDING
Published: David Bogue, 1853
Stock code: 1242
Price: £360.00
8vo., FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with almost 100 wood-engravings from drawings by Foster in the text; handsomely bound in contemporary full crushed green morocco, sides blocked with quadruple gilt frame borders, green back gilt extra with five raised bands, gilt doublures to a floral pattern, gilt edges, BY OLDFIELD, very slightly rubbed but a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.