LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (author). Harrison FISHER (illustrator). E. Stetson CRAWFORD (decorations by). The Song of Hiawatha. Indianapolis; The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers. 1906.
Royal 8vo.; publisher's dark green pictorial cloth blocked in cream and brown and lettered in gilt, decorated green endpapers; pp. [xiv], 15-188 + [i], printed throughout on fine coated stock; with title-page pictorially panelled in green, patterning in pale green throughout by E. Stetson Crawford, to showcase the text, vignettes, full-page plates and other drawings in monochrome after detailed pencil sketches by Harrison Fisher, alongside a total of 16 full-page plates in a range of muted colours; a very bright and crisp copy with bruising, but no splitting, to spine ends; internally near fine, with a neat contemporary gift inscription, dated '06, to front blank.
First edition of this illustrated interpretation.
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