[SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE]. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.

The Song of Hiawatha.

London W. Kent & Co. 1860 Octavo. viii, 224 pp. First English illustrated edition. With twenty-fourwood engravings after designs by George H. Thomas. This copy features a jeweled binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of dark green morocco, the outer borders with elaborately emblematic tooling featuring teepees, horse and deer heads, and leafy sprays. Each corner is adorned with an agate surrounded by four small garnets against a pointillé background, and the outer border is divided by an onlaid green morocco frame. At the center, a sunken panel of turquoise levant features an elaborate gilt decoration consisting of Longfellow's initials and his birth and death dates, intertwined with sprays of forget-me-nots with onlays of red, all set against a heavy pointillé background and framed with a richly tooled laurel border. The geometrical arrangement is echoed on the lower cover, but the stones at the corners are agates flanked by four small sapphires, and the border emblems consist of onlaid fish, a beaver, pottery, and a pair of axes in gilt. The sunken center panel in the rear depicts a fish formed of onlays swimming through weeds against a gilt background. The fish has a small pinkish-red stone for an eye, and it appears to have been speared by an arrow, which has a banner just below the fletching that reads "Hiawatha's Fishing." Turn-ins gilt, with deep red onlays framing a snakeskin doublure. Both endleaves are also snakeskin. All edges gilt, with elaborate gauffering. This copy is from the famed Phoebe Boyle collection of bindings sold in 1923. An exceptional, intricately worked binding with a fine provenance, housed in a silk-lined solander case, which shows some bumping at the corners.

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• librero: Bromer Booksellers Inc. (USA)