Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MANUSCRIPT.) Longfellow's Flower de Luce. illustrated calligraphic manuscript, written in pseudo-Gothic hand in black ink, recto only, on wove paper. 10 leaves, including title within strapwork border with floral decoration; 9 leaves of text with landscape vignette and/or elaborate decorated initial on each; and final leaf with full-page painting of dead tree trunk on a bluff with legend "Finis." 296x247 mm, contemporary gilt-panelled brown morocco, spine ends damaged, joints and cover corners worn; contents clean. Np, 1875

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with--Flower-de-Luce. Illustrated. 16mo, publisher's brown cloth decoratively gilt, with iris and title design along spine and on cover, repeated in blind on rear; all edges gilt; first edition, with a clipped inscription and signature by longfellow mounted to lower front blank. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.