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There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://archive.org/details/cu31924029629684 r Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Digitized by Microsoft® FIVE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED ON OLD STRATFORD PAPER AND FIFTY COPIES ON VAN GELDER t>? Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Zbc Cbamberlain Btblfograpbies A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM OF THE WRITINGS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL COMPILED LARGELY FROM THE COLLECTION FORMED, BY THE LATE JACOB CHESTER CHAMBERLAIN WITH ASSISTANCE FROM HIS NOTES AND MEMORANDA BY LUTHER s!" LIVINGSTON NEW YORK PRIVATELY PRINTED 1914 Digitized by Microsoft® Copyright, 1914, by Anna M. I. Chamberlain Digitized by Microsoft® TO THE MEMORY OF JACOB CHESTER CHAMBERLAIN WHO UNCONSCIOUSLY ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL TO HIMSELF THESE BIBLIOGRAPHIES ARE DEDICATED A.M. I.C. Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® PREFACE THIS Bibliography of the First Editions of the writings of James Russell Lowell has been prepared upon the same plan as the Longfellow Bibliography published in 1908. It is a collector's bibliography and in its pages are described only first editions of Lowell's own books, pamphlets and leaflets, and first editions of other books, pamphlets or leaflets which contain, for the first time printed in a book, some writing of his. Magazines and periodicals, with the exception of a few of special interest to book-collectors, have not been described. Some volumes which contain a single letter of Lowell's and which, under the plan, should have been described fully, are simply mentioned and the location of the letter given. The list of books containing con- tributions of a more important character is long enough, though the Lowell specialist will want to secure every book containing a line of his writing. The catalogues of the auctioneers and deal- ers in autographs include many letters by Lowell, sometimes printed in full, but such publications have been ignored. The arrangement is chronological by date of publication. As many books published in the later months of the year are post dated, those consulting the book may be sometimes misled. But in the Check List, following this Preface, the titles are arranged according to the printed dates upon the title-pages themselves and alphabetically by title, under the year. The sizes given are according to the measurements adopted by the American Library Association and do not indicate the actual Cvii^ Digitized by Microsoft® PREFACE folding of the sheets. Blank pages are, generally, not mentioned in the collations. Page numbers in square brackets indicate only that the pages are unnumbered. Where the first and last of a series are in brackets there are often numbered pages between. This volume is issued as the second of the "Chamberlain Bibli- ographies," though it might, with justice, be called the third of the series, the Catalogue of the exhibition of Hawthorne's books pub- lished by The Grolier Club in 1904 being the first. That Catalogue, which was compiled by Mr. Chamberlain, was practically a bibliography of first editions of Hawthorne, though it was less comprehensive in its scope than the Longfellow and Lowell bibli- ographies. In addition to the regular issue of the Exhibition Catalogue printed and distributed to the Club members, Mr. Chamberlain printed, for private distribution, forty copies on fine paper, with wide margins and bound in boards. This special edi- tion contained some corrections and additions to the text, besides an Index and photogravure reproductions of two portraits. Owing to a large number of letters from Longfellow to George W. Greene acquired by Mr. Chamberlain and freely quoted from in the Longfellow Bibliography, that volume contains a greater number of heretofore unpublished letters than does the present compilation. All of the letters printed here in full are believed to be hitherto unpublished. The shorter extracts, quoted because they throw light upon the publication of various books, are mainly taken from the published letters. The extracts from Briggs's letters to Lowell referring to "A Fable for Critics" are, mainly at least, here first published. At the end of the Longfellow Bibliography there were printed a few poems which, probably through oversight, had not been reprinted by Longfellow during his lifetime or by his editors after his death. A much greater number of uncollected or dis- C viii 3 Digitized by Microsoft® PREFACE carded poems by Lowell exists, enough to make by themselves a volume equal in size to the Bibliography. The frontispiece to the present volume is a photogravure made from the life-size portrait in oils painted in London by Francis Lathrop, about 1884. The painting is now the property of The Grolier Club of New York (a gift from Mr. Beverly Chew), and this reproduction is made by the permission of the Council. Every lover of the writings of James Russell Lowell will, I am sure, join with me in thanking them for this privilege. I am indebted to Mr. William Coolidge Lane for the photo- graph of the leaflet "All Saints" in Harvard University Library, and to Mr. Andrew Keogh for the photograph of the "Christmas Carol" leaflet in the Aldis collection in Yale University Library. Mr. William Bunker has permitted me to reproduce the Water- town broadside of 1842 from his copy. The other leaflets are reproduced from Mr. Stephen H. Wakeman's copies. Especial acknowledgment is due to Mr. Wakeman for numerous favors. All of us who remember Mr. Chamberlain's interest, activity, enthusiasm and success in his chosen field of book-collecting will regret that time was not spared him to perfect and complete his collection of first editions of Lowell's writings, and to prepare his own Catalogue or Bibliography. To Mrs. Chamberlain's gener- osity is due the publication of this memorial of his interest in authors and books and book-collecting. L. S. L. 1*1 Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® CHECK LIST This list is arranged chronologically by the dates upon the printed title-pages and alphabetically under the year. The arrangement in the text is the actual order of issue so far as can now be ascertained. The titles with an asterisk prefixed are of books and pamphlets of minor im- portance, generally containing a single letter only. Though mentioned in the text they are not fully described, and are there always placed after the more im- portant publications of the same year. YEAR TITLE PAGE 1838 Class Poem 4 Harvardiana 3 To the Class of '38 4 1841 A Year's Life 5 1842 The Liberty Bell 9 Order of Services at the Dedication of the New Church in Watertown 10 The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 7 1843 The Liberty Bell 10 The Pioneer " 1844 The Gift 13 The Liberty Bell 15 The Liberty Minstrel 16 Poems J 5 1845 The Branded Hand [and] On the Capture of Fugi- tive Slaves 2 ° Conversations on Some of the Old Poets .... 18 The Liberty Bell *7 Liberty Chimes 20 * Poems by Alexander H. Everett 21 1846 Conversations on Some of the Old Poets. Second Edition 2I The Ladies' Casket 22 The Liberty Bell 20 The Missionary Memorial 21 Cxi] Digitized by Microsoft® CHECK LIST YEAR TITLE PAGE 1847 The American Anti-Slavery Almanac 23 The Liberty Bell 24 The Young American's Magazine 25 1848 The Biglow Papers 33 A Fable for Critics 26 A Fable for Critics. Second Edition 31 The Liberty Bell 25 Poems. Second Series 24 The Vision of Sir Launfal 34 Water Celebration. Exercises at the Fountain . . 32 1849 The Gallery of Mezzotints 35 The Liberty Bell 35 Poems 36 1850 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe 39 1851 The Liberty Bell 40 Memory and Hope 39 1852 Garden Walks with the Poets 40 1853 Thalatta 41 1854 The Poetical Works of John Keats 42 The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ... 42 1855 The Knickerbocker Gallery 43 The Poems of Maria Lowell 46 The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne .... 44 The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ... 44 Proceedings of the Anti- Slavery Meeting at Stacy Hall 45 1857 The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell .... 47 The Power of Sound 47 1858 An Autograph. Written in aid of the Fair for the Poor 51 Poetical Works 49 Poetry of the Bells S3 Report of the Committee on the State of the College Library 53 To Mr. John Bartlett 51 1859 All Saints. Written for Harriet Ryan's Fair ... 54 Cxii] Digitized by Microsoft® CHECK LIST YE AR TITLE PAGE *Appleton's American Encyclopaedia 56 The Biglow Papers. London Edition 54 Celebration of Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Burns 55 Gifts of Genius 56 1861 Favorite Authors 57 The Victoria Regia 57 1862 The Biglow Papers. Second Series. Part I . . .61 The Biglow Papers. Second Series. Part II . . .63 The Biglow Papers. Second Series. Part III . . 64 Mason and Slidell 59 Only Once 64 II Pesceballo 59 1864 Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors ... 68 The Biglow Papers. Second Series. With 133 pages 68 Fireside Travels 66 *The History of the Great Western Sanitary Fair . . 71 Memorial, R. G. S 69 The Old Dramatists 70 The President's Policy 65 The Spirit of the Fair 67 1865 The Biglow Papers. Second Series. With 141 pages . 73 The Bryant Festival at "The Century" 70 Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Soldiers of Harvard 71 1866 A Christmas Carol. Written for the Children's Fes- tival 75 Good Company 74 New England Loyal Publication Society, April 23, 1866 74 1867 The Biglow Papers. Second Series 75 1869 The Atlantic Almanac 79 *George W. Minns' School for Boys 80 *Sixty-third Anniversary Celebration of the New Eng- land Society 79 Under the Willows 78 C xiii ] Digitized by Microsoft® CHECK LIST YEAK TITLE PAGE 1870 Among my Books 80 The Atlantic Almanac 79 The Cathedral 81 Tributes to the Memory of John Pendleton Kennedy . 81 1871 My Study Windows 83 The Poets and Poetry of Europe 82 ♦Reception to George H. Boker -84 1872 ♦Catalogue of the School of Modern Languages . . 85 His Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke Alexis . . 84 1874 Jeffries Wyman 85 ♦Prophetic Voices concerning America 85 1875 Cambridge in the Centennial 86 The Harvard Book 87 Sheets for the Cradle 87 ♦Sixty-ninth Anniversary Celebration of the New Eng- land Society 85 1876 * Alpha Delta Phi Reunion Dinner 91 Among my Books. Second Series 89 Laurel Leaves 88 Proceedings at Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight 85 1877 Golden Songs of Great Poets 92 ♦Life of Edgar Allan Poe. By W. F. Gill .... 93 ♦Memorial of Fitz-Greene Halleck 93 Old South Meeting House. Report 91 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 92 Three Memorial Poems 90 Tribute to Edmund Quincy and John Lothrop Motley 91 1878 A Masque of Poets 93 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 94 1879 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 95 1880 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 96 Cxiv] Digitized by Microsoft® CHECK LIST YEAR TITLE PAGE True Manliness. By Thomas Hughes 95 1 881 Death of President Garfield 96 *Exercises in Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Cambridge 98 1882 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 98 Sir Walter Raleigh and America 98 1883 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States . 99 1884 Address Delivered before the Birmingham and Mid- land Institute. Private Edition 99 Birmingham Health Lectures 103 Browning Society. Monthly Abstract of Proceedings 104 Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Commemoration of 300th Anniversary 105 *Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife 106 On Democracy. Birmingham Edition 102 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 105 Transactions of the Wordsworth Society .... 104 *Unclaimed Estates in England 106 1885 Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Incor- poration of Concord 106 *Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Newbury . 108 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 107 Proceedings at the Presentation of a Portrait of Whittier to Friends' School 107 *Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Vol. I. Second Series 108 Wensley and Other Stories. By Edmund Quincy . 106 1886 *The Exercises of the 50th Anniversary of the Incor- poration of Lowell in Fifth Annual Report of the Dante Society .... 109 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 109 £™1 Digitized by Microsoft® CHECK LIST YEAR TITLE PAGE Proceedings at the Dedication of the New Library Building at Chelsea 108 ♦Proceedings of the Dedication of the Fountain on Eaton Square in ♦Speeches at the Presentation of the Portrait of Bishop Butler to Trinity College no 1887 Democracy and Other Addresses no Harvard University. A Record of the Commemora- tion of the 250th Anniversary in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 112 Richard the Third and the Primrose Criticism . .111 The West Church, Boston. Commemorative Services 112 1888 *Arbor Day 117 The English Poets 115 Heartsease and Rue 114 The History of the World's Progress 115 The Independent in Politics 113 Political Essays 113 Proceedings at the Meeting for the Formation of the International Copyright Association 116 Report of the Proceedings at the Dinner given by the Society of Authors 117 What American Authors Think about Copyright . .116 1889. Address before the Modern Language Association . 117 The Complete Angler 118 The Washington Centenary 118 1890 Areopagitica 120 *The Art of Authorship 122 ♦Kings of the Platform and Pulpit. Testimonials . . 122 Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe 119 My Brook 121 The Soldier's Field 120 *The Story of the Memorial Fountain to Shakespeare . 122 * Writings. Riverside Edition 121 1 891 Latest Literary Essays and Addresses 122 ♦Portraits and Autographs 122 L>vi;i Digitized by Microsoft® CHECK LIST YEAR TITLE PAGE 1892 *Abraham Coles : Biographical Sketch 123 American Ideas for English Readers 123 The Old English Dramatists 123 1893 Conversations on Some of the Old Poets .... 124 1894 The Harvard Crimson Supplement 125 Letters 124 1895 Last Poems 126 The Poems of John Donne 126 1896 The Power of Sound 127 1897 Lectures on English Poets 127 *The Old Rome and the New 128 *Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Second Series. Vol. XI 128 1898 *John Sullivan Dwight, Brook-Farmer 128 1899 James Russell Lowell and his Friends 128 *Sources of the History of Oregon 128 Specimens of Printing Types in use at the Marion Press 129 1901 James Russell Lowell. A Biography. By Horace E. Scudder 129 1902 The Anti-Slavery Papers 131 Early Prose Writings 130 1904 *Complete Writings. Elmwood Edition .... 131 1905 James Russell Lowell. By Ferris Greenslet . . .131 *Part of a Man's Life 132 1906 Four Poems 132 *Life of Charles Godfrey Leland 132 CxviiJ Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® 1838 Harvardiana. | Volume IV. | [vignette and quotations] | Cambridge: | Published by John Owen. | M DCCC XXXVIII. 8vo. Collation: Title, imprint, Preface, and Index, pp. [i]-viii; text, pp. [i]-392. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9% by 5% inches. Issued in ten monthly numbers for September, 1837, to July, 1838, each number enclosed in a printed cover. The title and the preliminary pages were issued with No. 10. Although the scheme of our compilation excludes periodicals, this vol- ume of Harvardiana is described because it includes James Russell Lowell's first literary compositions, or at least the first which achieved the per- manence of types. He was one of the editors whose names are signed to the Preface, which is dated "Cambridge, July, 1838." His associates were Nathan Hale, Jr., Rufus King, George W. Lippitt, and Charles W. Scates. As to the number printed, Edward Everett Hale says : "I do not think they ever printed three hundred copies. I do not think they ever had two hundred and fifty subscribers." The following list of Lowell's contributions to the magazine is from the Appendix to Scudder's "James Russell Lowell, a Biography." The articles in verse are so indicated, the other pieces are in prose. No. I. September, 1837. "Imitation of Burns." In verse. "Dramatic Sketch." In verse. "New Poem of Homer." No. II. October, 1837. "A Voice from the Tombs." "What is it?" In verse. "Hints to Theme Writers." "Obituary." "The Serenade." In verse. "The Old Bell." No. III. November, 1837. "The Idler. I." "Saratoga Lake." In verse. "Hints to Reviewers." "Skillygoliana, I." [33 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL No. IV. January, 1838. "Scenes from an Unpublished Drama, by the late G. A. Slim- ton, Esq." In verse. "Skillygoliana, II." In verse. No. V. February, 1838. "Chapters from the Life of Phil- omelus Prig." "Skillygoliana, III." In verse. No. VI. March, 1838. "The Idler. II." No. VII. April, 1838. "Skillygoliana, IV." No. VIII. May, 1838. "A Dead Letter." In verse. No. IX. June, 1838. [Extracts from a Hasty Pudding Poem.] In verse. "Translations from Uhland. i. Das Standchen; ii. Der Weisse Hirsch." In verse. No. X. July, 1838. "To Mount Washington, on a sec- ond visit." In verse. "Song: A Pair of black Eyes." In verse. 1838 To the Class of '38, | By their ostracized Poet, (so called,) IJ.R.L. | [rule]. 8vo. A single leaf, printed on one side only. The above is the heading. The poem, in two columns, separated by a vertical double rule, fills the lower four fifths of the page. A half-tone reproduction (reduced in size) is in Edward Everett Hale's "James Russell Lowell and his Friends," Boston, 1899. There is no men- tion of the poem or of the reproduction in the text, but in the list of illus- trations is the note: "From a printed copy lent by Mrs. Elizabeth Scates Beck, Germantown, Pa." I have been unable to see an original. It seems probable that this leaflet was distributed to members of the Class at the Valedictory Exercises held July 17, 1838. The poem has not been included in any of the collected editions. 1838 Class Poem. | "Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so: I Some said, It might do good; others said, "No." I Bunyan. | M dccc xxxviii. 8vo. Collation: Title, imprint, Dedication, and Preface, pp. [i- v] ; text and Notes, pp. [7]-52. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 5% 6 inches. C4] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Issued in paper cover, the first page printed from the types of the title-page. On account of unseemly behavior at chapel exercises, Lowell was, on June 25, "suspended till the Saturday before Commencement." He was sent to Concord, Mass., and put in charge of the Rev. Barzillai Frost, to whom he was to recite twice a day, and was "not to visit Cambridge during the period of his suspension." The printed programme of the Valedictory Exercises, held July 17, has as No. 4, "Poem by J. R. Lowell," but a foot- note says : "On account of the absence of the Poet the Poem will be omitted." On August 9 he was "in doubt whether to have my 'Poem' printed or no." On the 17th he wrote : "The first eight pages of the 'Poem' are prob- ably printed by this time, and the proof on its winding way." This proof of the first eight pages was received by him the next day, though the poem itself was not yet finished. It was probably completed within a few days, as the printed poem is dated at end, "Concord, Mass., August 21, 1838." The Preface is dated "Concord, Mass., August, 1838." The Dedication reads : "To the Class of 1838, | Some of whom he loves, none of whom he hates I This 'Poem' is Dedicated | by | Their Classmate." The pamphlet was probably printed before Commencement Day, which that year fell on August 29. The number printed must have been consid- erable, as it not infrequently comes into the market. The poem itself was never reprinted by the author. A portion of the original manuscript of the "Class Poem," being pp. 4 to 13, with three interpolated pages and nine pages of Notes, was acquired by the late Edwin B. Holden. It is dated on the last page, "Concord August 15, 1838. I Wednesday Evg. | J. R. L." Below this are two draw- ings of faces in profile. The following eight lines of verse, not a part of the poem, are on the last page and are here reprinted by the kind permission of Mrs. Holden : "That man 's a most egregious poet And wears long hair that folks may know it. 'T is true his verses do not show it But what of that? He must be poet, Is n't his hair twelve inches long? Why 't is proof positive of song Don't he feed Pegasus on clover ? Nay, don't he turn his dicky over ?" 1841 A I Year's Life. | By | James Russell Lowell. | Ich habe gelebt und geliebet. | Boston: | C. C. Little and J. Brown. | [rule] | M DCCC xli. [5] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL i2mo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1841) and imprint, Dedication, and Contents, pp. [i]-viii; half-title and text, pp. [i]-i82. A blank leaf at end is part of the last signa- ture. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% 6 by 4% inches. Issued in gray boards, with paper label, "A | Year's | Life." Most copies have a slip of "Errata,'' seven lines, inserted facing p. 182. A few early copies were sent out before the error was discovered. A slip was then printed and lightly tipped in, in the copies already bound. In the case of the unbound copies the slip was pasted upon the last sig- nature before binding. Mr. Chamberlain's copy, formerly Mr. Beverly Chew's (who secured it in England), and now Mr. Wakeman's, was of the earliest form, without errata slip. It has this inscription on the fly-leaf: "To I Alfred Tennyson | from the Author | Boston U. S." This volume may have been the beginning of a correspondence between the two poets. At least in December, 1841, Lowell was writing to Evert A. Duyckinck of a new and enlarged edition of Tennyson's poems which Moxon was about to publish, and says : "I do not wish you to state your authority for this— but you may de- pend on it, for my authority is the poet himself. I have the great satis- faction of thinking that the publication is in some measure owing to myself, for it was by my means that he was written to about it, and he says that 'his American friends' are the chief cause of his reprinting." The book was issued in January, 1841. An untrimmed copy (apparently the printer's press-room copy) has a pencil date, seeming to indicate the date of printing of the sheet, on the first page of each signature. Signa- tures 1 and 2 have "Jany 1" ; signatures 3, 4 and 5, "Jany 7" ; signatures 6 and 7, "Jany 9"; signatures 8 and 9, "Jany 12"; signatures 10 and 11, "Jany 18"; and signature 12 (the last), "Jany 19." Sometime between the latter date and the end of the month the book seems to have been bound. On February 18 Lowell wrote: "My book, as you must know, is out. It has been received with distinguished favor, but as yet only two hundred and twenty five copies have sold." On March 15 three hundred copies had been sold, and he was writing of the prospects for a second edition, which, however, was never issued. Just how many copies were printed does not seem to be recorded. Lowell said that he "sent but a bare half-dozen to the press," as he despised the "system of literary puffing." Edward Everett Hale prints a letter, from which the following is an extract, which shows that the author's ideas originally were very modest: "Now, if you will find out how much it would cost to print 400 copies (if you think I could sell so many; if not 300) in decent style (150 pages— less if printed closely), like Jones Very's book, for instance, I could find out if I could get an indorser. I should not charge less than $1 per vol.— should you? I don't care so much for the style of printing as to get it printed in any way." One friend (J. F. Heath), according to Mr. Scudder, "engaged to secure the sale of at least a hundred copies." The volume contains thirty-three poems and songs and thirty-five son- nets, besides a dedication in verse, a prefatory poem without title, and a [63 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL final one headed simply, "L'Envoi." Seven poems and two sonnets are all that are included in later collected editions. The author's manuscript of "A Year's Life" is in the Morgan library. The manuscript proper consists of pp. 1-59, 60 and 61, 62-73, 735^. 74-9A written on one side of the paper only, with one leaf, written on both sides ? inserted between pp. 74 and 75. Three pieces are marked out in the manuscript and do not appear in the printed book : "The Lover's drinksong.' - Pp. 14, 15 of the manuscript. "Song. Something on the leaf is written." P. 5. "Song. Thou giv'st me flowers." P. 31. Accompanying the volume, and now forming a part of it, is a sheet, two leaves, of blue paper having on p. 1 the sonnet "To Keats," and on p. 4 the verses written to Maria White on her birthday— "Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born." This latter was first printed, with some alterations, in "Poems," 1844, an d is included in the current editions* "To Keats" was printed in the Boston Miscellany for January, 1842, but seems never to have been reprinted. Laid in the manuscript is the following autograph letter relating evi- dently to "A Year's Life" addressed to J. Frank Heath : "Dear Ph. "Where have you been these three days ? "I went into town yesterday— saw Little & settled all about the volume which will therefore soon go to press. "J. R. L. "P.S. I am sick— if you come back come and see me." The letter is undated, but is indorsed "Wednesday Dec." 1841 The Token | and | Atlantic Souvenir, | an Offering | For Christmas and the New Year. | [waved rule] | Bos- ton : I Published by David H. Williams. | Philadel- phia, Thomas, Cowperthwaite & Co., Henry Perkins ; New I York, Collins, Keese & Co. ; Baltimore, Cush- ing & Brothers; | Cincinnati, U. P. James; St. Louis, J. C. Dennies | & Co.; London, Wiley & Putnam; Paris, I Jules Renouard. | [waved rule] | 1842. 171 Digitized by Microsoft® ©!E©i!il <§>§> f»JSHWii6] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL i2mo. Collation: Half-title, publisher's list, title (printed in red and black), and copyright (dated 1848), pp. [1-4] ; To the Reader, pp. [i]-iii; text, pp. [5]~78. Size of leaf, trimmed at side only, 7% by 5% 6 inches. i* Issued in gray boards, with paper label, "A | Fable | for | Critics." Also in stamped cloth, back lettered lengthwise "Fable for Critics." An examination of the stitching of a loose copy in the original covers shows that in this first edition the half-title and title form one signature, two leaves (without mark) ; "To the Reader," one signature, two leaves (with signature mark "1") ; while the text is six signatures of six leaves each, marked "2", "3", "4", "5", "6" and "7", and one signature of a single leaf, marked "8". The head-line throughout, which reads, "A Fable for the Critics," is printed in large capitals and there is a rule below the head-line on every page. Considered bibliographically, the "Fable for Critics" is one of the most interesting of Lowell's books. "About 600 lines" had been written in the fall of 1847, which were copied off and sent in December as a New Year's gift to Charles F. Briggs, to whom he presented the profits from the sale of the book. Briggs acknowledged the manuscript in a letter written the latter part of January, 1848. He said, in part : "I accepted your most noble present with as much freedom from any- thing bearing a resemblance of pride as the spirit in which you offered it, as I should have done had it been money instead of money's worth. Hap- pily by the use of my pen I earn my bread in sufficient abundance, and therefore I do not need your kind gift, but it will give me great pleasure to receive it, whatever it may produce; the use which I at once resolved to make of it I will explain to you by and by. "I think as you do that it will be marvelously popular and salable, and I shall grace it with some sketches if I can get them done to suit me. I think it will sell much better by being published in New York than in Boston." And a few days later he again writes : "I will try to get to press at once and when I send you the first proofs you must send me back some more copy, but don't let it interfere with your review articles nor with anything else that will produce you cash or comforts of any kind. When I received the poem I determined to appropriate the profits of it in this manner : one third should be invested for Queen Mab, to be given her on her eighteenth birthday; one third to be disposed of in the same manner for my little angel ; and the other third to be given to Page, for which he should paint your portrait for me and mine for you. This would be making the best disposition of the fund that I could devise, and I think will not be displeas- ing to you. If the profits should be small, I will divide them equally be- tween the little ones." On March 26, Lowell wrote to Briggs that he was "waiting for pleas- C273 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL anter weather in order to finish" the poem. He adds : "I ought not to have sent you any part of it till I had finished entirely." The following extracts are from letters of Charles F. Briggs heretofore unpublished : April 22. "I cannot make any definite arrangements about publishing the 'Fable' until I know the size of it. I want Putnam should publish it because he is not only the most liberal and intelligent of the tribe of pub- lishers, but his London house will afford him better facilities for giving it a circulation there than any other publisher has." June 3. "Putnam will Publish the Fable as soon as the remainder of it comes to hand, and in very handsome style." September 16. "I send you another form of the fable, and have left it for you to correct. We have been delayed waiting for paper." October 3. "I send you the revises as far as they go, they have now com- menced printing the first form and will soon make a finish of it, so, if you intend adding a preface, it will be well to have it here soon. I don't wish to hurry you, and feel too much mortified at the trouble you have already been at, on my account, to ask you to add anything more ; but Putnam hav- ing advertised the work for September he will be in a hurry to get it out." October 6. "I had the title-page already set up precisely as you suggested, but I happily conceived the idea of printing it in two colors, after the man- ner of Pickering's new old books, and as Putnam is taken with the idea it will be done. I will send you a proof on Monday." The published letters of Lowell to Briggs show that the last of the copy was sent on August 22. On October 4: "I send half the proof to-day — t' other to-morrow," and in the same letter: "I wish to see title-page and preface." Two days later he wrote : "Print the title-page thus: — " 'Reader, walk up' etc. as far as 'ruinous rate' in large italics in old fashioned style in an inverted cone A down to Fable for Critics in very large caps. Then the rest in small caps properly broken up so as to conceal the fact of the rhyme." Although the rhymed title-page says, "Set forth in October, the 21st day," the book was not published until the 25th. On that day Briggs wrote to Lowell : "I believe that there is no error in the Fable, typographically, but the title is most wretchedly printed, and by an accident the advertisement of C28H Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Putnam which should have been placed on a fly leaf at the end of the volume was so printed as to face the title, and it was not discovered until the book was bound, and Putnam on board the steamer. By a strange succession of accidents it was delayed a fortnight and at last botched. But, as only iooo copies have been printed, it shall be corrected in the next edition, which I have little doubt will soon be called for. The literati have been itching for it the past month, and all who have had a glimpse of it are charmed with it. Putnam's leaving for London was a sudden move which disarranged matters so that the printing of the title page was given to the wrong person, and as he was anxious to take some copies with him he ordered the binder to send for it so that it was not seen, and I could not obtain a revise myself. Then it so happened that the order given for the paper was not for sufficient quantity so that they had to wait near a week to get more from the mill. They advertised it Saturday [October 21st], but the copies were not obtained until this morning. They are mortified about it, but nobody was to blame, as they say when a steamboat blows up. I felt very much vexed about the matter on your account for I meant that book should be elegantly got up. However, it has beauty enough, and goodness enough, to overcome much more serious blunders." On October 6, Lowell had written : "I wish you would do up a copy with 'author's and so forths,' dated New York, and put it into Ticknor's first box directed to Dr. O. W. Holmes, Boston, and also one directed to Professor Felton, Cambridge, in Ticknor's or Nichols's as it may chance." And in the letter of October 25 from which the preceding extract is quoted Briggs wrote: "I will have the copies of the 'Fable' directed and sent as you desire, and if you wish more copies will send them. But you had better wait for the second edition before you send any to your very par- ticular friends for I fear that they will laugh at our New York publish- ers, for the style in which the book is issued." After the book was out, on November 12, Briggs wrote to Lowell, tell- ing of published criticisms, that "Page repeats it all by heart off hand," and then says : "The little errors of typography and bungling manner in which the title page was struck off annoyed me a good deal, for I knew what a nice eye you possess. But the next edition shall be better, you may be sure. Craig- head is a very good printer ; he was too busy to do the Fable, and Putnam gave it to a new, but a reputed good printer, by way of trying him. If our printers, in New York, are not quite so nice as yours in Cambridge it is probably because they have so much business on their hands. But that is not a valid excuse for them, I know." In a later letter, dated simply "Saturday, Nov. 1848," but evidently November 27, he writes : "Every copy of the Fable was sold a fort-night ago, and the second edition is now about two-thirds stereotyped. I have read it very carefully. If you have the preface ready be so good as to send it immediately." This second edition was, apparently, not ready on December 20, when Lowell wrote to Sydney Howard Gay: "Briggs must give you a copy of the second edition, in which the C293 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL atrocious misprints of the other will be corrected, and to which I have prefixed a new preface." The misprints of the first edition were, aside from the title-page, not_ so "atrocious" as the above statement would lead us to expect. The following errors were corrected by Lowell in his autograph in the copy of the book given by him to Thomas Wentworth Higginson and which was acquired by Mr. Chamberlain : P. 6, 1. 8 : "woo'd" changed to "wood" P. 16, 1. 2 : "in shade" changed to "in the shade" P- 35, 1- 13 : "on the ocean" changed to "with the ocean" P. 42, 1. 13 : "You're" changed to "Your" P. 43, 1. 25 : "cords" changed to "chords" P. 50, 1. 13 : "pieces" changed to "princes" P. 54, 1. 12 : "the hunting" changed to "in hunting" P. 65, 1. 22 : "that" changed to "those" P. 68, 1. 4 : "And if" changed to "As if" P. 68, 1. 5 : "As if" changed to "And as if" P. 70, 1. 19 : "corn, or" changed to "corn is, or" P. 74, 1. 2 : "smile to a frown" changed to "frown to a smile" On February 7, 1849, Briggs wrote: "The Fable has gone to a third edition of 1000, at least I see it is so advertised." On March 15, 1849, Briggs tells Lowell : "Putnam offered me half profits on the sale of the Fable, but I agreed with him for ten percent on the amount of sales at the retail price. I have had no settlement with him yet, nor have I received anything from him." And again on September 17, 1849: "The Fable has sold well, but exactly how well I do not know. I have not yet received a copper on account of it, but I shall get something before long and will remember you on account." And again on November 28, 1849 : "Don't misunderstand my allusions to the Fable. I supposed that you would like to know how it had sold. Something less than 3,000 copies have been disposed of, and I believe that another edition will be got out before long." In the collected edition of the "Poetical Works," Boston, 1857, the date in the imprint was altered to "October, the 31st day." Mr. Scudder inad- vertently gives this as the date of "the first title-page" and Mr. Greenslet copies his error. An author is seldom an authoritative source of bibliographical informa- tion about his books, and recollections of forty years earlier can hardly be expected to agree exactly with the facts as narrated in letters written at the time. And it was so with Lowell. To the edition of the "Fable for Critics" published in October, 1890, he prefixes this note : "This jeu d'esprit was extemporized, I may fairly say, so rapidly was it written, purely for my own amusement and with no thought of publica- tion. I sent daily instalments of it to a friend in New York, the late Charles F. Briggs. He urged me to let it be printed, and I at last con- C30 3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL sented to its anonymous publication. The secret was kept till several per- sons had laid claim to its authorship." The letters show that about "six hundred lines'' were written sometime before November 13, 1847, and on that day he copied out "Emerson" as a specimen. This portion was "all written with one impulse and was the work of not a great many hours." It was copied off and sent to Briggs on December 31, 1847. On February 1, 1848, he had in addition, "and exclusive of Emerson, etc., about a hundred lines," written "chiefly about Willis and Longfellow." On March 26 no further progress had been made and he was telling Briggs : "I hope you will write and give me a spur." On May 12 he had "begun upon the 'Fable' again fairly," and was "making some head- way." On May 19 he wrote to Gay: "Tell Briggs I have finished John Nealj Hawthorne, Cooper, myself, and something more, and that there will not be more than twelve hundred lines." On August 22 he sent the last of the manuscript. Meanwhile Briggs had more than once been asking him for copy. 1848 Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and | buy at a perfectly ruinous rate | A | Fable For Crit- ics; I or, better, | (I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike, | an old-fashioned title-page, | such as presents a tabular view of the volume's con- tents) I A Glance | At a Few of our Literary Progenies | (Mrs. Malaprop's word) | From | The Tub of Diogenes; | A Vocal and Musical Medley. | That is, I A Series of Jokes | By a Wonderful Quiz, | who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, | on the top of the tub. | Set forth in I October, the 21st day, in the year '48: | G. P. Putnam, Broadway. i2mo. Collation: Title (printed in red and black), copyright (dated 1848) and imprint, pp. [i, ii] ; To the Reader, pp. [iii]-v; blank, p. [vi] ; A Preliminary Note to the Second Edition, 6 pp. ; text, pp. [7]-8o; publisher's advertisements, pp. 9-16. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 4% inches. C3i3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Issued in boards with paper label, and also in stamped cloth, back lettered "Fable | for | Critics." There were several editions printed from the stereotype plates which were made after the iooo copies of the first edition printed from type were disposed of. The "Preliminary Note to the Second Edition" was at first separately printed and pasted down on the fourth leaf of the first signature. It was not inserted at all in the earlier copies. A study of several copies in the original bindings shows a different "make-up" in the printing. The earliest printing consists of three signatures of twelve leaves each, the last ending on page 72. The next two leaves, pp. 73-76, form a fourth signa- ture, and the last two leaves, pp. 77-80, form a fifth. The only signature marks are "1" on p. [iii] and 2* on p. 33, but the stitching is very evident in the copy examined. This copy does not contain, and apparently never has contained, the three extra leaves, the "Preliminary Note." The second printing has also three signatures of twelve leaves each, the last ending with p. 72. Then comes a signature of eight leaves, being pp. 73-80 of text and eight pages of advertisements not in the earlier copies. These pages are 9-16 of Putnam's Catalogue. The three leaves of the "Preliminary Note" were, in most copies, pasted in before the book was bound, but Mr. Chamberlain owned a copy in which the three leaves had evidently been inserted after the book was bound. In a third form the title leaf is a separate signature, followed by three signatures of twelve leaves each, the last ending on page 68, the "Prelim- inary Note," three leaves, being included in the first signature. Pp. 69-80 form a fourth signature, six leaves. The copy of this form which I have examined has the last line of the imprint, "G. P. Putnam, 10 Park Place." The title was not reset, but merely a change made in the stereotype plate. The only signature marks in any of these stereotype editions are "1" on page [iii] and 2* on page 33. Some of the more important typographical differences between the first and later editions are: No half-title in the second edition. The first edition has a half-title. Extra line, "A Vocal and Musical Medley," is inserted in its proper place on the title-page. This line was omitted in the first edition. A printer's imprint on verso of title, below the copyright. There is no imprint in the first edition. No waved rule above "To the Reader.'' In the first edition there is a waved rule. Text is numbered [5] to 78 in the first edition ; [7] to 80 in the second. No rule below the head-lines. In the first edition there is a straight rule below the head-line at the top of each page of text. 1848 Water Celebration, | Boston, October 25, 1848. | Exer- cises at the Fountain. C32] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Folio. A single leaf, printed on one side only. The above is the heading, followed by Order of Exercises, the third number being "III. Ode. | By James Russell Lowell, Esq., | To be sung by the School Children." Then follows the poem, eight stanzas of six lines each. This programme was printed before the celebration and therefore ante- dates the pamphlet usually considered as the first edition of Lowell's "Ode." This account of the celebration has the title: "Celebration | of the | Introduction | Of the | Water of Cochituate Lake | into the | City of Boston. | [waved rule] | October 25, 1848. | [waved rule] | [Seal of Boston] I [waved rule] | Boston : | J. H. Eastburn, City Printer." The "Ode. | By James Russell Lowell, Esq. | Sung by the School Chil- dren." is on pp. 21, 22. 1848 Meliboeus-Hipponax. | [rule] | The | Biglow Papers, | Edited, | With an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, | and Copious Index, | By | Homer Wilbur, A.M., | Pastor of the First Church in Jaalam, and (Prospec- tive) Member of | many Literary, Learned and Sci- entific Societies, | (for which see page v.) | [quota- tion, 5 lines] | Cambridge: | Published by George Nichols. I 1848. i2mo. Collation: Notices of an Independent Press, pp. [i]-I2; half-title, title, copyright (dated 1848) and imprint, Note to the Title- Page, Introduction, and Contents, pp. [i]-xxxii; text, Glossary, and Index, pp. 1-163. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% by 4% 6 inches. Issued in glazed boards, untrimmed, with paper label. Also in stamped cloth, back lettered "Biglow | Papers". I have seen a single copy in plain pale green paper covers, un- printed, edges trimmed, size 6% by 4% inches. This last was probably an advance issue sent out for review. Mr. Cooke states that some copies were issued without the preliminary leaves, "Notices of an Independent Press," but this is undoubtedly an C333 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL error, as the half-title and title are leaves 7 and 8 of the first signature "a", followed by signature "b", eight leaves, and "c", six leaves. The text itself begins with a new series of signatures, the mark "i" being on p. [i]. Copies for the New York market— perhaps they may be called a second issue— have five-line imprint: "Cambridge: | Published by George Nich- ols. | New York : | George P. Putnam, 155 Broadway. | 1848." This New York issue seems to have been bound at the same time, as the stamp is identical. On June 16, 1846, Lowell wrote to the editor of the Anti-Slavery Stand- ard: "You will find a squib of mine in this week's Courier. I wish it to continue anonymous, for I wish slavery to think it has as many enemies as possible." This was the first of these Biglow Papers, "A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Biglow," which appeared in the Boston Courier of June 17, 1846, and which was reprinted in the "Anti-Slavery Almanac" for 1848, as already noted. Of the other eight pieces which make up the volume, four appeared in the Boston Courier and the other four in the Anti-Slavery Standard, the last being in the Standard of September 28, 1848. On September 2, 1848, he had "got between twenty and thirty pages already printed," and he added : "It is the hardest book to print that ever I had anything to do with." "It made fifty pages more than" he expected, but on November 10 he wrote : "It will be out, I suppose, today. The first edition, of 1500 copies, "were all gone in a week— so that the book was actually out of print before a second edition could be struck off from the plates." Charles F. Briggs made the arrangements with Putnam for the New York edition. In a letter dated simply "New York, Saturday Oct. 1848", he wrote to Lowell : "Putnam says that you may put his name into 100 copies for his London agency and 500 for New York, if you would like for him to attend to the sale and distribution here." I have not seen a copy with the London imprint. 1848 The Vision | of | Sir Launfal. | By | James Russell Lowell. I [rule] | Cambridge: | Published by George Nichols. I 1848. i2mo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1848) and imprint, Note, pp. [i-v] ; half-title and text, pp. [i]-27. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in yellow glazed boards, front cover lettered "The Vision I of | Sir Launfal." within a border. Also in pale brown boards, edges untrimmed, with paper label, "The Vision of I Sir Launfal." C343 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL On February i, 1848, Lowell wrote to Briggs, referring to this poem : "I shall probably publish it by itself next summer." It was, however, pub- lished on December 18. On the 22d of that month he wrote to Briggs : "I shall send you Sir Launfal in a day or two. I could not get copies enough yesterday." On the 31st Briggs replied: "Sir Launfal arrived at a very bad time, when all the booksellers had made their arrangements for their holiday sales, and Putnam had got all his advertisements and had his hands too full to attend to anything more. I do not think there is any danger of its being damned with faint praise, for its merits are of a kind that can be appreciated by the superficial as well as the thoughtful readers." The "Anti-Slavery Harp," Boston, 1848, contains on pp. 45, 46, "Are ye Truly Free?" This, as noted, had already appeared in "The Liberty Minstrel," 1844, and "Poems," 1844. 1848 The I Liberty Bell. | By | Friends of Freedom. | [quota- tion, 4 lines] | Boston: | National Anti-Slavery Ba- zaar. I MDCCCXLIX i2mo. Collation: Half-title, title, imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]- viii ; text, pp. 1-292, portrait frontispiece and engraved title. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7 by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, gilt edges, back lettered "The | Liberty | Bell". This annual contains: "The Burial of Theobald. | By James Russell Lowell." Pp. 269-274. It seems never to have been collected. 1848 The I Gallery of Mezzotints: | An Annual | for | 1849. | With twenty-one superb engravings. | New York: | M. H. Newman & Company, | 199 Broadway. | MDCCCXLIX. 8vo. Collation: Title, imprint, Contents, and Embellishments, pp. [1-7] ; blank, p. [8] ; text, pp. [9] -224. Twenty-one mezzo- tints, separately printed, inserted as per list on p. [7]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 5% inches. CSS] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Issued in stamped morocco, gilt edges, back lettered "Gallery of Mezzotints | 1849." This volume contains "To Lamartine. | By James Russell Lowell." Pp. 9-13. A foot-note in the Table of Contents says: "From the National A. S. Standard." This poem appeared first in the Anti-Slavery Standard for August 3, 1848, and next in the present volume, published late in 1848. It was col- lected in the second volume of "Poems," 1849. 1849 Poems I by | James Russell Lowell. | In two Volumes. | Vol. I. [Vol. II.] I Boston: | Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. I M DCCC XLIX. 2 vols., i2mo. Collation : Vol. I : Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1849) an d imprint, Dedication, Note, and Contents, pp. [i-xii] ; half-title and text, pp. 1-251. Publishers' list dated "December, 1849." bound in, in front, pp. 1-4. Vol. II : Half-title, title, copy- right and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]-vii; half-title and text, pp. 1-254. Size of leaf, half-trimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in gray boards with paper label, "Lowell's | Poems. | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. [Vol. II.]" Also in brown cloth, back lettered "Lowell's | Poems | Vol. I. [Vol. II.] | Ticknor & Co.", and, as a holiday edition, perhaps, in red cloth, full gilt sides, and gilt edges. These two volumes were printed from the same stereotype plates as the "Poems," 1844, and "Poems, Second Series," 1848, but with alterations. The following are the principal points of difference : Vol. I The half-title, title, and copyright were reset. The original copyright was taken out by John Owen, and was dated 1843. In this volume the date was changed to 1849 and James Russell Lowell's name appears instead of Owen's. The Dedication, pp. [v]-vii, is identical. P. [viii], blank in the 1844 volume, here has this note : "This edition is a revised one, but as the vol- umes which form the substance of it had been stereotyped, it was found easier to cancel than to correct. Accordingly, several poems and parts of C363 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL poems have been left out of the first volume, and their places supplied in most instances by selections from an earlier volume published in 1841. These intercalated pieces will be found sufficiently designated by the dates appended to each. The second volume has been made correspondent in size with its fellow, by the addition of some poems more lately written." "A Legend of Brittany," which filled pp. 3-63 of the 1844 volume, here occupies only pp. 3-44, stanzas xii, xv, xx, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxxvii, xxxix to xlv, xlviii, xlix, liii, and liv of Part I, vi to xi, xvi, xxi, xxv, xxvii, xxxii, xxxiii, li, Hi, lix, lx, lxiii, and lxiv of Part II, being omitted, and the stanzas renumbered. Then comes the half-title, here pp. [45, 46], and, to fill up pp. 47-66, the following poems have been inserted from "A Year's Life": "Threnodia." Dated "1839" at end. "The Sirens." Dated "Nantasket, July, 1840" at end. "Serenade." Dated "1840" at end. "Irene." Dated "1840" at end. The two books then correspond as far as p. 101. "The Dirge," which filled pp. 101-105 of the 1844 volume, was omitted, the space being filled by : "With a Pressed Flower." Dated "1840." "The Beggar." Dated "1839." Both of these had been included in "A Year's Life." The last fifty lines of "Rhoecus" were omitted, as also the next two pieces, "Song." and "In Sadness." In this space, pp. 126-133, were inserted : "The Falcon." Not dated. "My Love." Dated "1840." "Trial." Not dated. The first of these was taken from "Poems, Second Series," 1848; the sec- ond had appeared in "A Year's Life," 1841, and the third appears here for the first time in book-form. From p. 134 to p. 141, the two correspond. After this no effort seems to have been made to retain the pagination of the old plates. Two poems, "Forgetfulness" and "A Reverie," filling pp. 142-147, were cut out, but instead of trying to fill in new matter, the pagination of the next poem, "Love," was altered, and so on to the end. "Fantasy," pp. 195-197, was omitted, and "To the Memory of Hood" inserted in its place. "Silence," pp. 213-215, was omitted, and "Thistle-downs," filling only one page, was inserted. Both of these are here first collected. More than half of "A Chippewa Legend"— from the middle of p. 222 to the end, p. 227— was omitted. In the 1844 volume there were thirty-seven sonnets, but thirteen of these-numbers III, IV, V, XI, XII, XVI, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXIX, XXXIV, XXXV, and XXXVI— were omitted in 1849. Three new ones, "I would not have this perfect love of ours," "For this true nobleness I seek in vain," "I thought our love at full, but I did err," were inserted. The first and second of these were taken from "A Year's Life" ; the third was from "Poems, Second Series." The 1844 volume contains 279 pages of text, while this 1849 volume has only 251. ' 1371 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Vol. II In the same way the text of the 1848 volume, "Poems, Second Series," is identical with Vol. II of this 1849 edition as far as p. 149. "Anti-Texas," filling pp. 150-156, was cut out, and "The Falconer," filling pp. 157-159, slightly altered, was transferred to Vol. I, with the title "The Falcon." In the place of these two pieces were inserted three others, here first collected : "Eurydice." "She Came and Went." "To W. L. Garrison." The 1848 volume ended with p. 184. Pp. 185-254 of the 1849 volume con- tain the following pieces : "The Vision of Sir Launfal." "Ode to France." "Kossuth." "To Lamartine." "A Parable." "Ode Written for the Celebration of the Introduction of the Cochituate Water into the City of Boston." "Lines Suggested by the Graves of Two English Soldiers on Concord Battle Ground." "To ." "Freedom." "Bibliolatres." "Beaver Brook." "To John G. Palfrey." Several of these pieces had already been printed in the Anti-Slavery Standard, but they are here first collected. The Table of Contents in each volume was probably entirely reset. From these same stereotype plates editions of the "Poems" were from time to time printed, the "Seventh Edition" — perhaps the last— being dated 1857. On November 25, 1849, Lowell wrote to Charles F. Briggs : "My new edition will be out about the 10th of December, and I think that with Ticknor publishing I shall, for the first time, make something by my poems. I shall clear at least $100 by the first edition, and every sub- sequent one will be clear gain, as I shall have no expense about the plates." Three days later Briggs replied: "I am anxiously waiting for the two volumes," but there seems to have been a further delay in the publication of the books. On January 28, 1850, he wrote: "Thank you for your two precious volumes ; they certainly ought to satisfy you when they so more than satisfy your friends." "The Canzonet," Montpelier, 1849, contains three poems by Lowell : "Lines on the Death of Charles T. Torrey," "The Contrast," and "The Outcast." All of these, had been printed in earlier books. "The Outcast" is merely an extract from the poem "The Forlorn," with a new title. C383 . Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1849 The Works | of the late | Edgar Allan Poe: | With | Notices of his Life and Genius. | By | N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Griswold. | In two volumes. | [rule] | Vol. I. | Tales. | [rule] | New York: | J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall. | 1850. i2mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1849), To the Reader, and Contents, pp. [i-vi] ; "Edgar A. Poe. | By James Russell Lowell", pp. vii-xiii; "Death of E. A. Poe. By N. P. Willis," pp. xiv-xx ; text, pp. 1-483. Publisher's list bound in at end, pp. 1-4. Frontispiece portrait of Poe. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Works | of | Edgar A. Poe | Vol. 1. I Tales." This first volume of Poe's works, edited by R. W. Griswold, contains Lowell's article (pp. vii-xiii), which had appeared in Graham's Magazine for February, 1845, as No. XVII of the series "Our Contributors." It is not included in the collected editions of Lowell's works, though Stoddard and Woodberry included it in their editions of Poe's works. This edition of Poe's works was in four volumes : Vols. I and II pub- lished late in 1849 (though the titles are dated 1850), Vol. Ill in 1850, and Vol. IV in 1856. The other volumes contain nothing by Lowell. "Gems from the Spirit Mine," London, 1850, contains, on p. 70, "The Fatherland" by James Russell Lowell. This poem had, however, already appeared in the "Poems" of 1844. 1850 Memory and Hope. | Boston: | Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. I M DCCC LI. I 8vo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1850) and im- print, Dedication, Poem, and Contents, pp. [i]-xii; text, pp. 1- 244. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, gilt edges, back lettered "Memory | and | C39H Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Hope." Also in stamped morocco, gilt gauffred edges, and per- haps in other bindings. This volume contains: "The First Snow-fall." Signed at end "J. R. Lowell." Pp. 19-21. This poem had appeared first in the Anti-Slavery Standard for Decem- ber 27, 1849. As collected in "Under the Willows," 1868, it was revised. 1850 The I Liberty Bell. | By j Friends of Freedom. | [quota- tion, 4 lines] | Boston: | National Anti-Slavery Ba- zaar. I MDCCCLI. i2mo. Collation: Half-title, engraved title (separately printed), title, imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]— viii ; text, pp. 1-304. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, gilt edges, back lettered "The | Liberty | Bell." This issue of "The Liberty Bell" contains the first appearance of "Yussouf. I By James Russell Lowell", dated at end "Elmwood, Cam- bridge, U. S." Pp. 303, 304. It was collected in "Under the Willows," 1868. "The Boston Book/' Boston, 1850, contains "The Syrens" by Lowell, filling pp. 30-33. This poem had already appeared in "A Year's Life," 1841. / 1852 Garden Walks With the Poets. | By Mrs. C. M. Kirk- land. I New-York: | G. P. Putnam & Company, 10 Park Place. | 1852. i2mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1852), Preface, List of Poems, List of Authors, pp. [i]-xii; text, pp. [o]-340. Engraved title. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% 6 by 5% inches. Issued in stamped cloth, back lettered "Garden | Walks | with the I Poets | Mrs. Kirkland | New York | Putnam & Co." C403 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Besides "The Dandelion," which fills pp. 52-54, and which had appeared before in "Poems, Second Series," 1848, as "To the Dandelion," this vol- ume contains two pieces by Lowell : "A Day in June. | J. R. Lowell." Pp. 126-128. "Winter Piece. | James Russell Lowell." Pp. 291, 292. The first of these was collected in "Under the Willows," 1868, but with the title altered to "Al Fresco." The second was never collected. In "Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Gar- rison.", 1852, is included, as part of the prefatory matter, Lowell's poem "The Day of Small Things." This appeared under this title in the Anti- Slavery Standard for October 16, 1848, and was collected in the second volume of "Poems," 1849, but with the title "To W. L. Garrison," under which title it is found in later editions of the author's works. 1853 Thalatta: | A | Book for the Sea-side. | [quotation, 4 lines] | Boston: | Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. | M DCCC Lin. i2mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1853) and imprint, quotations, and Contents, pp. [i]-viii; text, pp. 1-206. Publish- ers' list, dated "April, 1853", bound in, in front, pp. 1-8. Size of leaf, half-trimmed, yY 8 by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Thalatta | A Book | for | the Sea-side | Ticknor & Co." This volume contains "Appledore." Signed at end, "J. R. Lowell." Pp. 61-63. This had appeared in Graham's Magazine for February, 1851. It was intended to be a part of the volume to be called "The Nooning," which Lowell was for many years planning to bring out. In sending a copy of the two-volume "Poems," 1849, to Charles F. Briggs, Lowell wrote : "My next volume, I think, will show an advance. It is to be called 'The Noon- ing.' " In June, 1853, he wrote to the same correspondent : "I have the 'Nooning' to finish — which shall turn out well." The plan was never car- ried out, though most of the material intended for the volume was in- cluded in "Under the Willows," published in 1868. In December of that year Lowell wrote : "And the 'Nooning.' Sure enough, where is it ? The 'June Idyl' (written in '51 or '52) is a part of what I had written as the induction to it. The description of spring in one of the 'Biglow Papers' is another fragment of the same, tagged with rhyme for the nonce. So is a passage in 'Mason and Slidell,' beginning 'Oh, strange new world.' The 'Voyage to Vinland,' the 'Pictures from Appledore,' and 'Fitz-Adam's Story were written for the 'Nooning,' as originally planned. So, you see, I had made some progress." C4i3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1854 The | Poetical Works | of | John Keats. | With a Life. | [rule] | Boston: | Little, Brown and Company. | New York: Evans and Dickerson. | Philadelphia: Lippin- cott, Grambo and Co. | M. DCCC. liv. i6mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1854) and imprint, Contents, and Life, pp. [i]-xxxvi; half-title and text, pp. [1]- 415. Portrait of Keats facing title. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% by 4% inches. Publishers' list bound in, in front, pp. 1-4. Issued in cloth with paper label, "The | British Poets. | Poems of I Keats. 1855." Lowell wrote the prefatory Life, "The Life of Keats.'' Signed at end "J. R. L." Pp. [vii]-xxxvi. This was collected later, though partly re- written, in the second series of "Among My Books." On April 20, 1854, Lowell wrote to the printer Mr. Bolles : "You can begin printing from any editions of Keats's poems— putting the 'Endymion' first as it now stands. There is nothing to be done to it in the way of editing. Before you get through that, I will have the other poems (of Keats) arranged & prefix a sketch of his life." 1854 The I Poetical Works | of | William Wordsworth, | D.C.L., Poet Laureate, etc., etc. | Vol. I. [Vol. II. to Vol. VII.] I [rule] | Boston: | Little, Brown, and Company. | New York: Evans and Dickerson. | Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. | M. DCCC. LIV. 7 vols., i6mo. Collation, Vol. I: Title, copyright (dated 1854) and imprint, Poem, Contents, pp. [i]-vii; "Sketch of Words- worth's Life.", pp. [ix]-xl; text, pp. 1-38 1 ; Notes, pp. [382]- 384. Portrait facing title. Publishers' lists bound in, in front, pp. 1-4. Vol. II : Title, copyright and imprint, and Contents, pp. C42] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL [i]-x; text and Notes, pp. 1-406; Vol. Ill: Title, copyright and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]-x; text and Notes, pp. 1-342; Vol. IV: Title, copyright and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]-xii; text and Notes, pp. 1-367. Vol. V : Title, copyright and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]-vi; text, Notes, Appendix, and Indexes, pp. 1- 366. Vol. VI: Title, copyright and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i-iii] ; text and Notes, pp. 1-371. Vol. VII: Title, copyright and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i-iii] ; text, Notes, and Appendix, pp. 1-414. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% by 4% inches. Issued in clotlj, back lettered "The | British | Poets | Words- worth I I." To this edition of Wordsworth's works in seven volumes, Lowell con- tributed the "Sketch of Wordsworth's Life.", pp. [ix]-xl. It was collected in "Among my Books," second series, 1876, but largely rewritten. The first, third, and fourth stanzas of "Stanzas of Freedom," which we're printed in "Poems," 1844, appear under the title of "Hymn" in James Freeman Clarke's pamphlet "The Rendition of Anthony Burns," Boston, 1854. This pamphlet is therefore not a first edition of Lowell. 1854 The I Knickerbocker Gallery: | A Testimonial | To the Editor of the [Knickerbocker Magazine | From its Contributors. | With forty-eight Portraits on Steel, from Original Pictures | engraved expressly for this work. I New York: | Samuel Hueston, 348 Broad- way. I [small rule] | MDCCCLV. 8vo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1854) and imprint, Con- tents, List of Engravings, and Preface, pp. [vii]-xiv; text, pp. [ I S] _ 5°5- Frontispiece, engraved title, and plates facing pp. 15, 23. 2 7, 39. 59. 63, 81, 83, 97, 113, 131, 135, 145, 147, 161, 163, 187, 189, 209, 211, 219, 235, 247, 249, 269, 277, 323, 329, 345, 347, 373, 375, 383, 393, 397, 421, 433, 437, 449, 45 1, 453, 457, 465, 467, 479, 481, 493, 503. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 6 inches. Issued in stamped cloth, back lettered "The | Knickerbocker | Gallery." Also issued in morocco binding. C43 3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL v To this volume Lowell contributed "Masaccio | Brancacci Chapel, Florence. | By James Russell Lowell." Pp. 381, 382. It was collected in "Under the Willows," 1868. 1855 The I Poetical Works | of | Dr. John Donne, | With a Memoir. | [rule] | Boston : | Little, Brown and Com- pany. I Shepard, Clark and Co. | New York: James S. Dickerson. | Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co. I M. DCCC. LV. i6mo. Collation: Title, imprint, Dedication (signed "John Donne"), pp. [i]-4; Contents, pp. [v]-x; "Some account | of the I Life of Dr. John Donne.", pp. [xi]-xxii; text, pp. 1-43 1. Publishers' lists bound in, in front, pp. 1-8. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6%, by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "The | British Poets | Donne". Lowell edited this edition of Donne's poems. He did not write the Life, as this note appears at the bottom of p. xi : "This is an abridgement of Walton's Life, and is taken from the edition of Donne's Poems published in 1719." That he prepared copy for the work and read the proof is shown by the following letter addressed to his printer, Mr. Bolles : "I have queried 'Vol. I.' in the Donne proofs. The edition we print from has exactly 300 pages of 35 lines each. You can reckon from this. I should think he would make one plump volume, and readers don't like your lean & hungry ones any more than Caesar did. . . . "I can give you copy for Donne as fast as you like. "Will you also ask Mr. Brown the next time you see him if he has an old edition of Donne? Either of 1633 or 35? If not will he send me the first Vol. of the last edit, of D's Works published at London in 1839 by Alford, if it contains a life?" It was a copy of this edition the margins of which Lowell filled with emendations, then mislaid, and which was afterwards found and published by the Grolier Club of New York. 1855 The I Poetical Works | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley, | Edited | By Mrs. Shelley. | With a Memoir. | [quota- t44l Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL tion, 3 lines] | In three volumes. | Volume I. [Volume II.] [Volume III.] | [rule] | Boston: | Little, Brown, and Company. | New York: James S. Dickerson. j Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co. | M. DCCC. LV. 3 vols., i6mo. Collation, Vol. I: Title, copyright (dated 1855) and imprint, Dedication, Contents, Preface, Postscript, and Memoir, pp. [i]-xli; half-title and text, pp. [i]-449. Portrait facing title. Publishers' list bound in, in front, pp. 1-8. Vol. II : Title, copyright and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]— vi ; half-title and text, pp. [i]-499. Vol. Ill: Title, copyright and imprint, pp. [i]-vi; half-title and text, pp. [i]-450. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6 1: /4e b y 4%6 inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "The |i British | Poets | Shelley 1 1." Lowell was the author of the "Memoir of Shelley." Pp. [xvii]-xli. In this first edition it was unsigned, but in the 1857 edition Lowell's name was added and the copyright date was changed to 1857. 1855 The Boston Mob of "Gentlemen of Property and Stand- ing." I [rule] I Proceedings | of the | Anti-Slavery Meeting | Held in Stacy Hall, Boston, on the | Twen- tieth Anniversary | of the | Mob of October 21, 1835. | [rule] I Phonographic Report by J. M. W. Yerring- ton. I [rule] | Boston: | Published by R. F. Wallcut. | 1855. 8vo. Collation: Title and imprint, pp. [i, 2] ; text, pp. [3] -76. Size of leaf, trimmed, g 3 / 1Q by 5% inches. Issued in paper covers, p. [1] printed from the types of the title-page, but enclosed in a double-rule frame ; other cover pages blank. [45 1 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL A hymn by James Russell Lowell, beginning, "Friends of Freedom ! ye who stand With no weapon in your hand," is found on p. 31. It was reprinted the next year on a broadside headed, "Anti-Slavery Festival | in Faneuil Hall. | A Welcome to Parker Pills- bury." It seems never to have been collected. 1855 The I Poems | of | Maria | Lowell. | [ornament] | Cam- bridge: I Privately Printed. | 1855. i2mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1855) and imprint, Dedication, and Contents, pp. [i]-vi; text, pp. 1-68; Portrait, a "crystallotype" cut round and mounted, as frontispiece. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% 6 by 5%e inches. Issued in stamped cloth, gilt edges, back lettered "Poems." Mrs. Lowell died October 27, 1853. This volume, of which fifty copies were printed for presentation to her friends, contains twenty poems only. The Dedication reads : "To | Emelyn Story, | Mary Lowell Putnam, | and I Sarah B. Shaw, | This book is dedicated." The volume contains no writing of Lowell's, but it is so intimately asso- ciated with him that it is always one of the most prized items in a Lowell collection. On May 25, 1854, Lowell wrote to E. A. Duyckinck: "I am about to print a little volume containing her poems — some of them never before printed. It is not to be published, but if you would like to make any use of it, I shall have great pleasure in sending you a copy." On June 7 he wrote again: "With the little volume I spoke of in my last, you will find a very beautiful head. It is a Crystallotype of a drawing of Cheney's after a portrait by Page, and is like as far [as] there can be any likeness made of a face so full of spiritual beauty, and in which so much of the charm was subterficial." And again on December 6: "My having been away from home all the summer has delayed the printing of the memorial volume I wrote to you about. It is now in the press and will be finished by January at farthest, I hope." "Affection's Gift, A Christmas, New- Year and Birthday Present, for MDCCCLV.", Philadelphia, 1855. contains on p. 256, "Sonnet— Truth. By James Russell Lowell." This sonnet, with the title "Sub Pondere Crescit," appeared in "Poems," 1844, and later editions. U63 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1857 [The Power of Sound.] In the Introduction to the privately printed edition of "The Power of Sound" prepared by Mr. E. B. Holden in 1896, Prof. Charles Eliot Norton says: "There are several references in it to incidents which occurred during the summer of 1857, from which it may be concluded that it was written in the autumn or early winter of that year ; while other references in the additions show that the latest of them belong to the spring of 1862. The only existing copy of the poem is in print on galley slips, cut up so as to make twenty-three pages. The margins of many of these pages are full of corrections and additions written in ink or pencil. It was put into type and cut up into its present form for convenience of reading in public." Once put in type and for a specific purpose, it is probable that more than a single copy was printed. One or more other copies may possibly still be in existence. 1857 The I Poetical Works | of | Andrew Marvell. | With a | Memoir of the Author. | [rule] | Boston: | Little, Brown and Company. | Shepard, Clark and Brown. I Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Co. | M. DCCC. LVII. i6mo. Collation: Title, imprint, half-title, and Contents, pp. [i]- viii; Notice of the Author, pp. [ix]-liii; blank leaf, half-title, and text, pp. 1-335. Publishers' advertisements, 4 pp. bound in, in front. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "The | British | Poets | Mar- vell". On December 6, 1854, Lowell wrote to E. A. Duyckinck : "You will be pleased I think, to hear that I have been editing Andrew Marvell's Poems for Little and Brown. I have spent a good deal of thought and labor on the text and it is not much to say that it will [be] the most correct yet. I am now at work upon Donne." In the undated letter to his printer, Mr. Bolles, from which I have quoted on p. 44, he says : l47l Digitized by Microsoft® Written tn aid of the Fair for the Poor, AT THE Boston Music Hall, March, 1858. AN AUTOGRAPH. Though old the thought and oft expreft, 'T is his at laft who fays it beft,— I'll try my fortune with the reft. Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. "Lo, time and fpace enough," we cry, " To write an epic ! " fo we try Our nibs upon the edge and die. Mufe not which way the- pen to hold, Luck hates the flow and loves the bold, Soon come the darknefs and the cold. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that fublime,— Not failure, but low aim is crime. Ah, with what lofty hope we came ! But we forget it, dream of fame, And scrawl, as I do here, a name. J. R. LOWELL. Cambridge, \ M 7th March, 1858. [ SIZE OF ORIGINAL ] Z&l Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL "In the Marvell proof, p. xiv., will you be good enough to look at the life of Marvell in the 'Biographia Borealis' I left with you, & see if the date (1653) is right. I mean of M's appointment as Dutton's tutor. The date in the note is right— 1657. There is a letter of M's about it in the Bio- graphia which may be dated." The book, however, seems not to have been published until 1857— at least I can find no copy with an earlier date. There is no copyright notice. 1857 The I Poetical Works | of | James R. Lowell. | Complete in two volumes. | Volume I. [Volume II.] | Boston: | Ticknor and Fields. | M DCCC lviii. 2 vols., i8mo. Collation, Vol. I : Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1857) and imprint, Dedication, and Contents, pp. [i]-ix; text, pp. 1—3 1 5 ; portrait frontispiece. Vol. II: Half-title, title, copyright and imprint, Dedication, and Contents, pp. [i-vi] ; text, pp. [vii]- 322. Size of leaf, trimmed, 5% by 3% 6 inches. Issued in blue cloth, gilt edges, back lettered "Lowell's | Poems I Vol I I Ticknor & Co". The stereotype plates prepared for the two-volume edition of "Poems," 1849, were used without change for the printing of several editions, the last, marked "Seventh Edition" on the title-page, being issued in 1857. Later the same year, this two-volume edition in the "blue and gold" series was published. Vol. I contains all the poems of the 1849 edi- tion with the exception of "Thistle-downs" and "The Morning Glory," the latter being by Mrs. Lowell. The pieces are differently arranged and a few slight changes were made in the titles of several. "Stanzas," pp. 205, 206 of the 1849 edition, here has the title "Stanzas on Freedom." Sonnet I is here addressed "To A. C. L." Sonnet VIII is here "To M. W., on her Birth-day." In the earlier editions it had been "To , on her Birth-day." Sonnet XX, formerly entitled simply "To ," is here "To M. O. S." Vol. II contains four poems: 1. "A Fable for Critics," with rhymed title-page, having the date of publication "October, the 31st day." 2. "The Biglow Papers." 3. "The Unhappy Lot of Mr. Knott." 4. "An Oriental Apologue." No. 3 was first printed in Graham's Magazine for April, 1851, and No. 4 in the Anti-Slavery Standard for April 12, 1849. Both are here first collected in book-form. C493 Digitized by Microsoft® TO MR. JOHN BARTLETT. ON SENDING ME A SEVEN-POUND TROUT. "OIT for an Abbot of Theleme, "^ For the whole Cardinals' College, or The Pope himself to see in dream Before his lenten vision gleam, He lies there, the sogdologer ! His precious flanks with stars besprent, Worthy to swim in Castaly ! The friend by whom such gifts are sent, For him shall bumpers full be spent, His health ! be Luck his fast ally I PAGE I OF LEAFLET "TO JOHN BARTLETT" [ SIZE OF ORIGINAL J C50H Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1858 Written in aid of the Fair for the Poor, | at the | Boston Music Hall, March, 1858. | [rule] | An Autograph. | [text, six stanzas of three lines each] | J. R. Lowell. | Cambridge, | 7th March, 1858. i6mo. 2 leaves. The above printed on p. [ i ]; pp. 2-4 blank. Size of leaf, 6% by 3% inches. This poem was reprinted in "Under the Willows," 1868, with title, "For an Autograph." The only copy of the leaflet I can trace belongs to Mr. Stephen H. Wakeman. 1858 To I Mr. John Bartlett. | On sending me a seven-pound trout. I i2mo. 2 leaves. The above at the top of p. [1] ; 2 stanzas, 5 lines each, on p. [1] ; 3 stanzas each on pp. [2] and [3], and 2 stanzas on p. [4]. Signed "J. R. Lowell", and dated "Elmwood, 1858." Size of leaf, 6% by 5 inches. It is with some uncertainty that I insert this leaflet under the date 1858. The trout was certainly sent and the poem written in that year, though it was not published until 1866, when it appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for July. On May 30, 1866, Lowell wrote to Charles Eliot Nor- ton: "You will see my verses to Bartlett in the next Atlantic, and I guess you will like 'em. They seemed to me fanciful and easy when I corrected the proof, with some droll triple rhymes." Norton was one of his closest friends and nearest neighbors, yet this reads as if the poem were a new one, and unfamiliar. We know that Bartlett reprinted the poem in 1882 as a single quarto leaf for insertion in copies of his "Catalogue of Books on Angling" pub- lished in that year. It there bears the same date at end, "Elmwood, 1858," as appears upon this rarer and earlier four-page leaflet. As Bartlett was a collector of books on fishing, we may presume that, upon receipt of the manuscript from his friend, he at once had it put into type and a few copies struck off. At least, until we know something more definite of its origin, we can only put it under the date it bears. I know of only a single copy. C50 Digitized by Microsoft® frkk SA1«T8, One Feast, of holy days the crest, I, though tio cliurchmnn, love to keep, All Saints — the unknown good that rest In God's still memory folded deep ; The liravely dumb that did their deed, And scorned to blot it with a name, Men of the plain heroic breed, That loved Heaven's silence more than fame; Such lived not in the past alone, But threud to-day the unheeding street, And stairs to Sin and Famine known, Sing with the welcome of their feet ; Tho den they enter grows a shrine, The grimy sash an oriel burns, Their cup of water, warms like wine, Their speech is tilled from heavenly nrns. About their brows tome appears An aureole traced in tenderest light. The rainbow-gleam of smiles through tears In dying eyes, by them made bright, Of souls that shivered on the edge Of that chill ford repassed no more, And in their mercy felt the pledge And sweetness of the farther shore. J. B. LOWELL. Written tor Harriet Ryan's Fair. March 20th, 1869. [ SIZE OF ORIGINAL ] C523 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL The quarto leaflet has been described as a first edition, but this is im- possible, as from its form we know that it was printed in 1882 to accom- pany Bartlett's "Catalogue." The poem was collected by Lowell in "Under the Willows," 1868. 1858 Report I of | The Committee | of the | Association of the Alumni | of | Harvard College, | Appointed to take into consideration | The State of the College Library, | In Accordance with a vote of the Association passed | at the Annual Meeting July 16, 1857. | [rule] | Cam- bridge: | Metcalf and Company, | Printers to the University. | 1858. 8vo. Collation: Title and text, pp. [i]-44. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 5% inches. Issued in paper cover, the first page printed from the types of the title-page. A "Statement of Professor Lowell" is found on pp. 20, 21. It has never been reprinted. 1858 Poetry of the Bells | collected by | Samuel Batchelder, Jr I [vignette] | Riverside Press | Printed in aid of the Cambridge Chime | By H. O. Houghton and Company | 1858 i2mo. Collation: Title, quotation (6 lines), and Contents, pp. [i]-4; text, pp. [5-72]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in stamped cloth, red edges, back lettered "Poetry | of the I Bells". This volume contains a poem especially written for the occasion : "Godminster Chimes." Signed and dated at end "J. R. Lowell. | Dec. 9, 1858." Pp. 57-6o. [53 3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL It was collected in "Under the Willows," 1868. "An Incident of the Fire at Hamburg," which had appeared in "Poems," second series, 1848, is also included in the volume. 1859 All Saints. | [rule] | [text, three stanzas of eight lines each] I J. R. Lowell. | Written for Harriet Ryan's Fair. | March 20th, 1859. i6mo. A single sheet, printed on one side only, as above. Size of sheet, 6^4 by 4 inches. The only specimen of this leaflet which I have been able to trace is the one in the library of Harvard University. The poem was collected in "Under the Willows," 1868. 1859 The I Biglow Papers. | By | James Russell Lowell. | Newly Edited, | With a Preface | By the | Author of "Tom Brown's School-Days." | Reprinted, | With the Author's Sanction, | from the Fourth American Edi- tion. I London: | Triibner & Co. 60, Paternoster Row. I 1859. i6mo. Collation: Half-title, title, imprint, Publishers' Preface, English Editor's Preface, Contents, Notices of an Independent Press, half-title, half-title, Note, and Introduction, pp. [i-lxviii] ; text, Glossary, and Index, pp. [i]-i40. Size of leaf, 6% by 5 inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "The | Biglow | Papers | Lowell I Triibner & Co." This edition, though otherwise interesting, finds a place here solely on account of the letter from Lowell incorporated in the "Publishers' Pref- ace." This letter is dated "Cambridge, Massachusetts, 14th September, 1859," and is as follows: E543 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL "I think it would be well for you to announce that you are to publish an Authorized Edition of the 'Biglow Papers'; for I have just received a letter from Mr. who tells me that a Mr. was thinking of an edition, and wished him to edit it. Any such undertaking will be entirely against my will, and I take it for granted that Mr. — — only formed the plan in ignorance of your intention. "With many thanks, very truly yours, "J. R. Lowell." The unauthorized edition referred to by Lowell appeared almost simultaneously with this one. It has the title : The Choicest Humorous Poetry of the Age. | [waved rule] | The | Biglow Papers, | By | James Russell Lowell. | [rule] | Alluded to by John Bright in the House of Commons. | [rule] | With | Additional Notes, an enlarged Glossary, | and | an Illustration by George Cruikshank. | London: | John Camden Hotten, | Piccadilly | [rule] | 1859. The Preface, signed "John Camden Hotten," is dated "Piccadilly, Oct. 25, 1859." The "Additional Notes" are signed "J. C. H." In the "Letters," Vol. I, pp. 275, 276, Professor Norton prints a letter from Lowell to Sydney Howard Gay, dated "Cambridge, Dec. 21, 1856," containing the following statements : "My dear Sydney,— Your having edited a pirated edition of the 'Big- low Papers' puts me in mind of what happened to a classmate of mine. But never mind, I sha'n't lose much by it, and even if I should, I should be willing to pay something for the amusement of seeing on the title-page that the book had been 'alluded to by Mr. Bright in Parliament.' Only think of it! it quite takes my breath away. But better yet, what foretaste of immortality like being edited with philological notes? It makes me feel as if the grass were growing over me." This seems to show that Gay had something to do with the preparation of this edition. The date 1856 should, without much doubt, be 1859. 1859 Celebration | of the | Hundredth Anniversary | of the | Birth of Robert Burns, | By the | Boston Burns Club. I January 25th, 1859. | [rule] | Boston: | Printed by H. W. Dutton and Son, | Transcript Build- ing. | 1859. C553 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL i2mo. Collation: Title and text, pp. [i]-84. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% 6 by 4*%6 inches. Issued in cloth, front cover lettered "Boston Burns Club. | Centennial Festival, | 1859." Lowell's contribution to this volume has the title: "Poem of James Russell Lowell, Esq." "A hundred years ! they 're quickly fled." Pp. 55-59- It was not collected until 1888, when it was included in the "Heartsease and Rue" volume, under the title "At the Burns Centennial." Mr. Chamberlain acquired the original of Lowell's letter of acceptance to attend the meeting of the Club. It is as follows : "I have the honor to acknowledge your kind invitation to the 'Burns Festival.' I shall come with great pleasure and shall have my contribution to the festivities ready if there shall be room for it." 1859 Gifts of Genius: | A Miscellany | of I Prose and Poetry, | By | American Authors. | [ornament] j New York: | Printed for C. A. Davenport. i2mo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1859), Con- tents, To the Public, and Introductory, pp. [i]-xii; text, pp. 13- 264. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 5 inches. Issued in stamped cloth, gilt edges, back lettered "Gifts | of | Genius". This volume, which was edited by William Cullen Bryant, and privately printed for Miss C. A. Davenport, a blind school-teacher of New York, contains "Sea-Weed. | By James Russell Lowell." Pp. 89, 90. This was collected in "Under the Willows.", 1869. Lowell contributed the article "Dante" to the first edition of Appleton's American Encyclopaedia, published from 1857 to 1863, the volume contain- ing the "Dante" appearing in 1859. It was reprinted in 1886 in the "Fifth Annual Report of the Dante Society." "The Bobolink Minstrel; or, Republican Songster, for i860" contains, on p. 34, Lowell's "The Present Crisis." This had appeared in "Poems," 1848. C563 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1861 Favorite Authors. | A Companion-Book | of | Prose and Poetry. | My Books, my best companions. | Fletcher | [device] | Boston : | Ticknor and Fields. | m dccc lxi. i2mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated i860) and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]-iv; text, pp. [1H300]. Plates, separately printed, facing title and pp. 21, 27, 37, 45, 66, 71, 89, 91, 106, 109, 123, 131, 145, 159, 161, 184, 189, 211, 216, 240, 249, 265, 270, 294. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 5 inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Favorite I Authors I Ticknor & Co." This volume contains "Cambridge Worthies— Thirty Years Ago. | By James Russell Lowell." Pp. [27o]-293. This had appeared in Putnam's Monthly for April and May, 1853. When collected in "Fireside Travels" in 1864, the title was altered to "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago." 1861 The I Victoria Regia : | A volume of | Original Contribu- tions in Poetry and Prose. | Edited by | Adelaide A. Procter. | [device] | London: J Printed and Pub- lished by Emily Faithfull and Co., | Victoria Press, (for the Employment of Women,) | Great Coram Street, W. C. | 1861. | Entered at Stationers' Hall. 8vo. Collation: Title, illustration, Dedication, Preface, Con- tents, pp. [i]-x; half-title and text, pp. [i]-349. Imprint, p. [350]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 6% inches. Issued in stamped cloth, gilt edges, back lettered "The | Vic- toria I Regia | London. 1861". Also in stamped morocco. This volume, to which Thackeray, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and others were also contributors, contains "The Fatal Curiosity.", signed at end "J. R. Lowell." Pp. 83, 84. It seems never to have been reprinted. [573 Digitized by Microsoft® IL PESCEBALLO. OPERA SEPJA: IN UN ATTO. Musica del Maestro Rossibelli-Dohimozarti. PERSONAGQI. Lo Stkaniero (Tenore). Il Cameriere (Basso) La Padrona (Soprano) Un Corriere, Serve della Locanda, Studenti di Padova La Scena e in Padova. [* II PeecebaUo (corruzione della voce inglese Fish-ball) e nn prodotto della cncina americana, consbtente in una combina- zione di etoccofiaso con patate, fatta nella forma di pallottole, simili alle nostre polpette, e poi fritta. Msgr. Bedini, nel suo Vtaggio negli Stati Umti, c' insegna che la detta pietanza si usa masaimamente nella Nuova-Inghilterra, ove, secondo quel ven- erabile autore, viene specialmente mangiato a colazione nelle domenicbe.] [ SIZE OF ORIGINAL ] C583 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1862 From the Atlantic Monthly. | Mason and Slidell: A Yankee Idyll. | To the Editors of the Atlantic Monthly. | Jaalam, 6 th Jan., 1862. | Gentlemen,— I was highly gratified by the insertion of a portion of my letter in the last | [etc.] 8vo. Collation : No title-page ; above at top of p. I. Letter, signed "Homer Wilbur, A.M.", pp. 1-2 ; Poem, pp. 3-12 ; lower half of p. 12 blank. Head-lines of pp. 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 are : "Mason and Slidell : A Yankee Idyll. [February," and of pp. 3, 5. 7, 9, and 11 : "1862] Mason and Slidell: A Yankee Idyll." Head-line of p. 12 : "Reviews and Literary Notices. [February,". Size of leaf, un- trimmed, 9% by 6% 6 inches. Issued stitched, without cover. "Mason and Slidell," the second of the "Biglow Papers, Second Series," appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for February, 1862. This separate issue was printed from the types of the magazine, with slight typographical alterations. The words "From the Atlantic Monthly", at the top of the first page, do not occur in the magazine, the pages of which are numbered 259-270 instead of 1-12. The lower half of the last page in the magazine contains the beginning of the next article, "Reviews and Literary Notices." Just how many copies of this separate issue were printed cannot now be traced. Seven or eight copies are now known — a large number when the fragile nature of the pamphlet is considered. No mention of it seems to have been made in the published letters, and, so far as we know, none of the other "Papers" were separately printed from the magazine types. 1862 II Pesceballo. | [rule] | Opera Seria: in un Atto. | Musica del Maestro Rossibelli-Donimozarti. | [rule] | Personaggi. | Lo Straniero (Tenore). | II Cameriere (Basso). I La Padrona (Soprano). | Un Corriere, Serve della Locanda, Studenti di Padova. | [rule] | C593 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL La Scena e in Padova. | [rule] | [8 lines] | [Boston, 1862.] i6mo. Collation : No title-page, above heading being on p. [ i ] ; text, pp. 2-31. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6 1 % 6 by 4% inches. Issued stitched, without cover. Mr. Chamberlain was the first to discover that there were actually three distinct editions of this scarce pamphlet, differing only in minor typographical particulars. This first edition was printed as an octavo on four sheets, with signature marks "i", "2", "3", and "4" on pp. [1], 9, 17, and 25 respectively. The paper used was a "wove" paper, without wire- marks or chain-lines. The second and third editions were printed on "laid" paper, on two sheets, with two signature marks only, "1" and "2", on pp. [1] and 17. The first and second editions were issued without cov- ers. The third edition has a tea-green printed paper cover, with title enclosed within a double rule: "II Pesceballo | Opera | in un Atto | Musica del Maestro Rossibelli-Donimozarti | [ornament] | Cambridge j Printed at the Riverside Press | 1862." The following are typographical points of difference noted by him: The signature marks on pp. [1] and 17 in the third edition are in a larger type than those of the second edition. P. 4, 1. 4: "piacier" in first edition is corrected to "piacer" in second and third editions. P. S. last line : "Saloon" is in roman type in first edition ; in italic type in second and third. P. 8, 1. 1 : "pocco" in the first edition is corrected to "poco" in second and third. P. 18, 1. 4 : "piu" in first and third editions is "piu" in second. P. 18, 1. 8: "anchore" in first edition is corrected to "ancorche" in the second and third. P. 23, 1. 10 : "and" is italic type in the first and second editions ; roman in the third. P. 30, last line : "Fine del Pesceballo.'' in the first and second editions measures full i&& inches in length, while in the third edition, being printed in a slightly smaller type, it measures only a hair's-breadth more than iJ4 inches. Although Mr. Chamberlain called these three forms first, second, and third issues, I am confident that the types were actually set three times and that they are more accurately described as first, second, and third editions. For the most part, they seem to have been printed from the same font of type, and set in the same office, perhaps by the same com- positor. There are sufficient differences in measurements, relative posi- tions of lines, broken types, position of accents, and different forms of marks of punctuation (especially the exclamation-point and parenthesis) to make it improbable that the types were kept standing while two even of the three editions were printed. neon Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Mr. Chamberlain made an effort to discover just when the first public performance of the opera was given. He has transcribed a letter from Prof. Child in which he says that "the Fishball opera (II Pesceballo) was printed for a series of performances in Cambridge in the Spring of 1862." Mr. Wakeman's copy of the second edition has a pencil memorandum: "Given at house of Miss Parsons, Garden St. May 6, 1862." With this as a guide, Mr. Chamberlain visited the family of Miss Parsons in Decem- ber, 1902, and saw in their possession a copy of the book (also second edition) with inscription : "Emily Parsons | May 1862 Cambridge." At the earlier performances, at least, the tenor part was taken by Dr. W. Langmaid, the basso by Mr. Underwood, and the soprano by Mrs. Benjamin Apthorp Gould. The reprint published in 1899 by the Caxton Club of Chicago was made from a copy of the third edition. It contains an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton: "This jeu d'esprit was written in Italian by Francis James Child and was sung frequently in Boston and vicinity during the later years of the Civil War, the proceeds being turned over to Edward Everett for his fund for the relief of the loyal people of East Tennessee who had been impoverished by the war. The proceeds of later performances may have been used for other charities. "The verso of each leaf contains Prof. Child's Italian text, while Lowell's translation into English is on the recto of the next leaf, facing it. This translation, no doubt considered by him of the most ephemeral character, is not included in any of the collected editions of Lowell's works." Laid in Mr. Chamberlain's copy was a letter from Charles Eliot Nor- ton, dated April 4, 1902, in which he says : " 'II Pesceballo' was originally issued in brown covers." This is undoubtedly a mistake. The earlier copies were issued without covers, and no copy of any edition with a brown cover can be traced. 1862 The I Biglow Papers. | By | James Russell Lowell. | Second Series. | Part I. Containing | 1 . Birdofredum Sawin, Esq. to Mr. Hosea Biglow. | 2. Mason and Slidell : A Yankee Idyll. | Authorized Edition. | Lon- don: | TrUbner& Co. 60, Paternoster Row. | 1862. i2mo. Collation : Title, p. [i] ; imprint, "London : | R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers, | Bread Street Hill." p. [2] ; text, pp. [3]- 52, with imprint "R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers, London." C6i] Digitized by Microsoft® THE BIGLOW PAPEKS. BY JAMES KUSSELL LOWELL. SECOND SERIES. PABT I. CONTAINING 1. BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN, ESQ. TO MR. HOSEA BIGLOW. 2. MASON AND SLIDELL : A YANKEE IDYLL. ^a%rt§,c& dbriion. LONDON: TEUBNEE & CO. 60, PATEENOSTEE EOW. 1862. [ SIZE OF ORIGINAL ] [62] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL at bottom of p. 52. Size of leaf, 7 3 / 16 by 4 15 A 6 inches. Edges trimmed, but top uncut and unopened. Issued in unglazed pink paper covers. P. [1] printed from the types of the title-page and enclosed within a single-rule frame. Below the rule is "Price One Shilling." P. [2] contains adver- tisements of "The Biglow Papers" and "Reynard the Fox"; p. [3], of "Baron Munchausen" and "Master Tyll Owlglass"; and p. [4] , of the "Strange, Surprising Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple." The book consists of signatures A, B, C, each 8 11., and D, 2 11., title leaf being A. There are signature marks on A2, B, B2, C, C2, and D. The first of these two pieces appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for January, 1862, and the second, as already noted, in the number for February, 1862. 1862 The I Biglow Papers. | By | James Russell Lowell. | Second Series. | Part II. Containing | I. Birdofredum Sawin, Esq. to Mr. Hosea Biglow. | 2. A Message of Jeff Davis in Secret Session. | Authorized Edition. | London: | Triibner & Co. 60, Paternoster Row. | 1862. i2mo. Collation: Title, p. [i] ; imprint, "London: | R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers, | Bread Street Hill.", p. [ii] ; text, pp. [53]- 90, with imprint "R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill." at the bottom of p. [90]. Size of leaf, trimmed throughout, 6% by 4 1 %e inches. Issued in unglazed pink paper covers. P. [1] printed from the types of the title-page and enclosed in a single-rule frame. Above the rule is "Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly." (this line is not on the cover of Part I), and below the rule, "Price One Shilling." Pp. 2, 3, and 4 of cover are identical with those of Part I. The book consists of signatures E, F, each 8 11., and G, 4 11. Title leaf is E. There are signature marks on E2, F, and G. C63 3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL These two pieces appeared first in the Atlantic Monthly for March and April, 1862. 1862 The I Biglow Papers. | By | James Russell Lowell. | Second Series. | Part III. Containing | 1. Speech of Honourable Preserved Doe in | Secret Caucus. | 2. Suthin' in the Pastoral Line. | Authorized Edition. | London: | Triibner & Co. 60, Paternoster Row. | 1862. i2mo. Collation : Title, p. [i] ; imprint, "London : | R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers, | Bread Street Hill.", p. [ii] ; text, pp. [9i]-i20. No imprint on p. 120. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6 1 % 6 by 4% inches. Issued in unglazed pink paper covers. P. [1] printed from the types of the title, enclosed in a single-rule frame. Inscrip- tions above and below the frame as in Part II. Pp. 2, 3, and 4 of cover as in Parts I and II. The book consists of signatures H and I, each 8 11. Title leaf is H. Signature marks on H2 (wrongly printed H), I, and I2. These two pieces appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for May and June, 1862. It is remarkable how popular the "Biglow Papers" seems to have been in England. These three thin pamphlets, as well as other editions published by Triibner & Co., to be noted later, appeared there many months before the magazine articles were collected by their author. It is not likely that the three parts appeared simultaneously, for, as will be seen, as soon as additional pieces (which might have formed a Part IV) appeared, the whole was collected into one volume. The copies of Parts I, II, and III in the British Museum were received there on August 9, 1862. 1862 [Rule] I Only Once. | Original Papers, by various Con- tributors. I Published for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. | No. 126 Second Avenue. 1 862. | [rule] | Contributors : | C643 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL C. M. Sedgwick. Win. Cullen Bryant. Geo. H. Boker. C. M. Kirkland. John G. Whittier. Theodore Tilton. E. A. Stoddard. O. B. Frothingham. E. J. Cutler. Phoebe Carey. James Russell Lowell. Charles Eliot Norton. Edna Dean Proctor. Charles T. Brooks. T. R. Rose Terry. Bayard Taylor. S. L. Marie E. Fellowes. William Page. | Music: Whittier's song of the Negro Boatman at Port Royal. | [rule] | Price, 25 Cents. | Or, with en- graved Portraits of Bryant and Lowell, and Miss Sedgwick, and View of Florence, price 50 Cents. | [rule] | John F. Trow, Printer, 50 Greene Street. 4to. Collation: Title, Note of Committee and copyright (dated 1862), pp. [1-2] ; text, pp. [3]-iS. Portraits, separately printed, facing pp. 5, 6, and 8, and plate facing p. n. Size of leaf, un- trimmed, 11% by 9% inches. Issued stitched, without covers. This pamphlet contains a poem, "Before the Embers. | By James Rus- sell Lowell." P. 6. It was apparently never reprinted. The copy described above is of the variety published at "50 Cents" with three portraits and one plate. 1864 No. 16. I The President's Policy | By | James Russell Lowell. I From the North American Review, Janu- ary, 1864. I [Philadelphia, 1864.] 8vo. Collation: No title-page, above being first page of cover; text, pp. [i]-22; pp. [23, 24] blank. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8 1 % 6 by S 1 %6 inches. Issued in paper cover. P. [1] as above, enclosed within an ornamental border. Pp. [2] and [3] of the cover contain an extract, "The Northern Message," reprinted from the London Spectator of December 26. P. [4] contains an advertisement of the North American Review. C6S3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Beginning with the number for January, 1864, the editorship of the North American Review was taken up by James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton, and to the first number Lowell contributed this article, "The President's Policy," being a review of President Lincoln's message to Congress dated December 9, 1863. This reprint of the article (from a new setting of type) was made for the Union League Club of Philadelphia. The "No. 16" on the cover indicates, probably, its order in the series of political tracts printed for the Club. It was probably pub- lished in March, and the printers were probably Crissy & Markley, who printed other pamphlets of the series. Lincoln read the article and wrote to the publishers of the Review: "Of course I am not the most impartial judge; yet, with due allowance for this, I venture to hope that the article entitled 'The President's Policy* will be of value to the country. I fear I am not quite worthy of all which is therein kindly said of me personally." He goes on to say of a sentence at the top of page 252, that he could wish it "to be not exactly as it is." In consequence of this remark there is an editorial note of two lines at the bottom of p. 15 of the pamphlet, which was not in the magazine article. In the first line of text, the word "crises" in the magazine was changed to "crisises" in the pamphlet. An extended account of the pamphlet was contributed by Theodore Wesley Koch to The Bibliographer for February, 1903. 1864 Fireside Travels. | By | James Russell Lowell, f [quota- tion, 4 lines] | [publishers' device] | Boston : | Tick- nor and Fields. | 1864. i2mo. Collation: Blank, p. [i] ; list of Lowell's writings, p. [2] ; title, copyright (dated 1864) and imprint, Dedication, Note, and Contents, pp. [i-vii] ; half-title and text, pp. 1-324. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in stamped cloth, back lettered "Fireside | Travels | Lowell [ Ticknor & Co." As the author says in his note on p. [v], the greater part of this vol- ume had appeared ten years before in Putnam's Monthly and Graham's Magazine. These pieces are: "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago" and "A Moosehead Journal." The first had been reprinted in the volume "Favorite Authors," as already noted. The remainder of the book, "Letters from my Journal in Italy and Elsewhere," was "selected from old letters and journals written on the spot." The volume was published in April or C663 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL May, 1864, and Mr. Chamberlain was of the opinion that the first issue was sent out without publishers' list. Later issues have a list dated Sep- tember, 1864 (or later date), bound in at the end. 1864 The Spirit of the Fair 1864 | "None But the Brave de- serve the Fair" | Tuesday, | April 5, 1864. | Editorial Committee: | Augustus R. Macdonough, Chairman. | Mrs. Charles E. Butler, Mrs. Edward Cooper, | C. Astor Bristed, Chester P. Dewey, James W. Gerard, Jr., William J. Hoppin, Henry D. Sedgwick, | Fred- erick Sheldon, Charles K. Tuckerman. | John F. Trow, Publisher and Printer, 50. Greene St. New York. I 4to. Collation : Pp. [ 1-208] . Consists of seventeen numbers or parts, issued daily (except Sundays) from April 5 to April 23, 1864. Each number consists of title, 1 p. ; advertisements, 1 p. ; text, 8 pp., and advertisements, 2 pp., except the last number, which has 12 pp. of text. Although included in the pagination, the first and last leaves of each number actually formed a cover. Each number (except the second) was copyrighted by Augustus R. Macdonough. This paper was published during the continuance of the Metropolitan Fair of the Sanitary Commission held at New York, April 5 to April 23, 1864. The number for Tuesday, April 12, contains "To a Friend who sent me a Meerschaum. | By James Russell Lowell." Pp. 79, 80. The poem was not collected until 1888, when it was included in the "Heartsease and Rue" volume, but with the altered title: "To C. F. Bradford, on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe." Later in the year the stereotype plates were purchased by John F. Trow. A general title, "The | Spirit of the Fair. | [8 lines] | New York : | John F. Trow, Publisher, 50 Greene Street", and a leaf, "Publisher's Notice," were prefixed, and the whole issued in one volume, bound in boards. The covers of the numbers were not included, so that there is a gap of four pages between each two numbers. A "Report of the Treas- urer of the Metropolitan Fair" is bound in at the end. Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1864 Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors. | [Vi- gnette] | Baltimore, | Cushings & Bailey | 1864. 4to. Collation: Blank, p. [i] ; copyright (dated 1864) and im- print, title, Preface, and Contents, pp. [ii]-xi; text, pp. 1-200; vignette, p. [201]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 10% by 8% inches. Issued in smooth, stamped cloth, back lettered "Autograph | Leaves | of our | Country's | Authors." This curious volume, lithographed throughout, consists of a series of reproductions of manuscripts of American authors. Lowell's contribu- tion was "The Courtin'," filling pp. 107-112, signed at end "J. R. Lowell." This dialect poem had appeared among the "Notices of an Independent Press," in the first series of "Biglow Papers," 1848. In Lowell's own words (from his Introduction to "The Biglow Papers, Second Series," 1867) : "While the Introduction to the First Series was going through the press, I received word from the printer that there was a blank page left which must be filled. I sat down at once and improvised another fictitious 'notice of the press,' in which, because verse would fill up space more cheaply than prose, I inserted an extract from a supposed ballad of Mr. Biglow. I kept no copy of it, and the printer, as directed, cut it off when the gap was filled. Presently I began to receive letters asking for the rest of it, sometimes for the balance of it. I had none, but to answer such demands, I patched a conclusion upon it in a later edition. Those who had only the first continued to importune me. Afterwards, being asked to write it out as an autograph for the Baltimore Sanitary Commission Fair, I added other verses, into some of which I infused a little more sentiment in a homely way, and after a fashion completed it by sketching in the characters and making a connected story. Most likely I have spoiled it, but I shall put it at the end of this Introduction, to answer once for all those kindly importunings." 1864 The I Biglow Papers. | By | James Russell Lowell. | Second Series. | Authorized Edition. | London: | Trubner & Co. 60, Paternoster Row. | 1864. i2mo. Collation : Title, p. [i] ; imprint, "London : | R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers; | Bread Street Hill", p. [ii] ; Contents, p. C68n Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL [i] ; blank, p. [2] ; text, pp. [3] -133, with imprint, "R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers, London.", at bottom of p. 133; blank, p. [134] . Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% by 4% inches. Issued in unglazed pink paper covers. P. [1] printed from the types of the title, but enclosed in a single-rule frame. No legend above or below the rule. Pp. 2 and 3 with "paste-downs." P. 4, advertisement of "The Biglow Papers. First Series." The book consists of title and Contents, 2 11. without signature mark; signatures A, 7 11. (lacking A) ; B, C, each 8 11. ; D, 2 11. ; E, 7 11. (lack- ing E) ; F, 8 11.; G, 4 11.; H, 7 11. (lacking H) ; I, 8 11.; K, 8 11., the last blank and used as a paste-down. There are signature marks on A2, B, B2, C, C2, D, E2, F, G, H2 (wrongly printed H), I, I2, K, and K2. These are the identical sheets of the three original parts with a new title-page and additional leaves, the old title-pages (Ai, El, and Hi) to the separate parts being torn out. The imprints occur on pp. 52 and 90. In two copies examined the "stab-holes" are evident in Part II, show- ing that it had been bound. In one, fragments of the pink paper cover of that part are discoverable. The additional leaves (pp. 90-133) contain "Latest Views of Mr. Biglow," which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for February, 1863. The copy in the British Museum was acquired on November 2, 1864. There was a second printing from the same plates, differing typograph- ically only in that the imprints on pp. 52 and 90 do not appear, having been cut from the plates. The imprint still is found on p. 133. This sec- ond edition appeared in glazed pink paper covers. The plates were again used the next year, but resignatured for more economical printing. This issue, dated 1865, consists of the title-page (1 leaf) without signature, and signatures A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H, each 8 11. and I, 4 11., the last blank and used as a paste-down. In the earlier editions the title was A. Here the Contents leaf is the first leaf of the signature, and has the signature mark "A." This was also published in glazed paper covers. An edition of "The Biglow Papers" containing the First Series com- plete, and Nos. I to VII of the Second Series, was published in London by S. O. Beeton late in 1865, though in the copy seen the title-page is un- dated. It has no first-edition value, though it antedated American publica- tion of the Second Series as a book by about a year. 1864 Memorial | R G S [as a monogram] | Cambridge | Uni- versity Press I 1864 |. 4to. Collation: Title, p. [i] ; blank, p. [ii] ; text, pp. 1-195; im- print, "University Press: | Welch, Bigelow, and Company, | C693 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Cambridge.", p. [196]. Photographic frontispiece. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9% by 7 inches. Issued in half leather, paper sides, back lettered "Memorial | R. G. S." This volume contains Lowell's memorial verses to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, "Memoriae Positum," signed "James Russell Lowell." Pp. 188-191. Also a letter written to Colonel Shaw's mother, dated "August 28, 1863" and signed '"J. R Lowell." Pp. 148, 149. This letter is published by Mr. Norton (Vol. I, pp. 327, 328), but I may quote the following pas- sage: "I have been writing something about Robert, and if, after keeping a little while, it should turn out to be a poem, I shall print it,— but not unless I think it some way worthy of what I feel, however far the best verse falls short of noble living and dying such as his." He kept the poem by him until November 30, 1863, when he sent it to James T. Fields, saying: "I want to fling my leaf on dear Shaw's grave." It was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly for January, 1864, and after- wards collected in "Under the Willows," 1868. Of this handsome volume, printed at the expense of the Shaw family, but very few copies were printed, and it is one of the rarest of first edi- tions of Lowell 1864 The I Bryant Festival | at | "The Century," | November 5, M.DCCC.LXIV. I New York: | D. Appleton and Com- pany, I 443 & 445 Broadway. | M.DCCC.LXV. 8vo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1864), pp. [1-2] ; text, pp. [3]-88. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 6% inches. Issued in lavender boards, front lettered in red "The | Bryant Festival | at | "The Century." 150 copies were printed on large paper and bound in half roan, gilt top. These contain twenty-two portraits and two other engravings, separately printed and in- serted. Size of leaf, 11% by 9% inches. On p. 59 is "Extract of Mr. James R. Lowell's Letter." and his poem to Bryant follows : "On Board the Seventy-Six. | By James Russell Lowell." Pp. 59-6i. 1864 [The Old Dramatists.] n7o3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Mr. Scudder, in his "James Russell Lowell, A Biography," Vol. II, p. 78, prints the following as a foot-note : "An interesting venture was made by Little, Brown & Co. in the sum- mer of 1864, which unfortunately proved too uncertain to be carried through. Lowell was to have edited a series of volumes illustrative of the Old Dramatists, from Marlowe down. He prepared one volume, which was put into type but never published. A set of proofs is in the library of Harvard University." Mr. Norton, in the "Letters," Vol. I, p. 359, referring to the same un- dertaking, says : "A single volume was printed but not published." It is probable that Mr. Scudder's statement is the more accurate and that the volume never got beyond the proof-sheet stage. It is possible, however, that more than a single set has been preserved. Lowell is given as one of the "Editorial Council" of "The Boatswain's Whistle," published at the National Sailors' Fair in Boston in 1864, but he seems to have contributed nothing to the paper. Ten numbers were pub- lished, dated November 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19. The Editor was Julia Ward Howe, and the "Editorial Council" consisted of Edward Everett, John G. Whittier, O. W. Holmes, A. P. Peabody, J. R. Lowell, and E. P. Whipple. The "History of the Great Western Sanitary Fair," published in Cincin- nati in 1864 (though the title-page is undated), contains, on pp. 183, 184, a short letter from Lowell dated "Cambridge, Dec. 19, 1863." 1865 Ode I Recited at the | Commemoration | of | The Living and Dead Soldiers | of Harvard University, | July 21, 1865. | By James Russell Lowell. | [device] | Cam- bridge: | Privately Printed. | 1865. 8vo. Collation : Title, limit notice and imprint, Note, Dedication of the poem, Dedication of this edition, and quotations, pp. [i- 8] ; text, pp. M-25. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9% by 6 X % 6 inches. Issued in gray boards, with paper label on front cover, "Com- memoration I Ode." Fifty copies only were printed, all for presentation. The note on p. [3] is as follows: "Note. A few passages which would have made the Poem too long in the reading are added in this printed copy." On p. [4] is the Dedication of the poem, as follows : C7I3 Digitized by Microsoft® ODE RECITED AT THE COMMEMORATION OF THE LIVING AND DEAD SOLDIERS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, July 21, 1865. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Hffl EM IBP CAM BRIDGE : PRIVATELY PRINTED. 1865. [ SIZE OF ORIGINAL J Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL "To the ever sweet and shining memory of the Ninety-Three Sons of Harvard College Who have died for their Country in the War of Na- tionality, This Poem is Dedicated." And the special Dedication of this edition, on p. [7], reads: "This edition of my Commemoration Ode, printed for friends, is in- scribed to those of my own kin who have fallen, not as singling them out for selfish praise, but because they were chiefly in my heart as I wrote. William Lowell Putnam. James Jackson Lowell. Charles Russell Lowell. Warren Dutton Lowell. Francis Dutton Lowell. Stephen George Perkins. Robert Gould Shaw. Cabot Russell." This magnificent Ode was read by its author at Harvard's memorial celebration on July 21, 1865. Two days before, Lowell had told Prof. Child that he could write nothing— that he was "dull as a door-mat." But the next day inspiration came and the poem, as delivered, was written out in one night between ten o'clock and four in the morning. The sixth stanza, a powerful eulogium of Lincoln, was not in the poem as read, but was added a few days later. The book was, no doubt, put in type and printed at once, as the inscrip- tions in several copies are dated September 3, 1865. Two years later the poem was reprinted in the "Harvard Memorial Biographies," edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, filling pp. ix-xix of the preliminary pages of the first volume. Higginson evidently crit- icized the versification, and Lowell replied at length, suggesting changes, in a letter dated March 28, 1867, printed on pp. 379-382 of Vol. I of "Let- ters," 1894. The original manuscript of this letter was acquired by Mr. Chamberlain. None of the corrections and additions were made in the Ode as printed in the "Memorial Biographies." Colonel Higginson after- wards wrote : "Apparently I begged off from them, or perhaps they were just too late. Some years afterwards Lowell wrote me a letter (now lost) saying that he had kept no copy, and wished to use them. Apparently they could not then be found. One of the emendations he seems to have re- membered and used." This single correction is the one to which Lowell referred, as follows, in his letter of March 28, 1867: "On looking farther, I find to my intense disgust a verse without a mate in the last stanza but one, and I must put in a patch. If I had only kept my manuscript ! We must read, " 'And bid her navies, that so lately hurled Their crashing battle, hold their thunders in.' " 1865 The I Biglow Papers. | By | James Russell Lowell. | Second Series. | Authorized People's Edition. | Lon- don: I Triibner & Co. 60, Paternoster Row. | 1865. C73 3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL i2tno. Collation: Title, p. [i] ; blank, p. [ii] ; Contents, p. [i] ; blank, p. [2] ; text, pp. [3]-i4i; blank, p. [142]. No imprints. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% by 4% 6 inches. Issued in green or blue paper covers, p. [1] reading, "The | Second Series | of the | Biglow Papers | by | James Russell Lowell. I Authorized People's Edition. | London: | Triibner & Co., Paternoster Row. | 1865", enclosed in a single-rule frame. Above the rule at the top is "Price one shilling." Pp. 2 and 3 of cover are blank. P. 4 has an advertisement of the first series of the "Biglow Papers." The book consists of signatures A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and I, each 8 11. The signature marks have been again rearranged, the book now making nine signatures of eight leaves each. One additional piece was added to this edition, filling pp. 134-141. This is "Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly," which first appeared in the number of that magazine for April, 1865. 1865 Good Company | For every Day in the year. | [quota- tion, 2 lines] | [Publishers' device] | Boston: | Tick- nor and Fields. | 1866. i2mo. Collation: Blank, p. [1] ; publishers' list of books, p. [2] ; title, copyright (dated 1865) and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]- iv ; text, pp. 1-326. Portraits, separately printed, facing title and pp. 16, 19, 86, no, 118, 134, 152, 168, 236, 240, 251, 265, 277, 288, 305, 308. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in stamped cloth, back lettered "Good | Company." This volume contains "Dara. | By James Russell Lowell." Pp. 16-18. It had appeared earlier in Graham's Magazine for July, 1850. It was col- lected in "Under the Willows," 1868. 1866 (No. 310.) I New England Loyal Publication Society. | Office, No. 8 Studio Building, Boston. | [rule] | April C743 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 23, 1866. | [double rule] | [Text in three columns, beginning:] A Speech that Mr. Johnson might | make. | (From an article entitled "The President on the Stump," in | the April number of the North Amer- ican Review.) Folio. A single sheet, printed on one side only. Size of type- page, 18 by 8 1 % 6 inches. The article in the North American Review for April, 1866, "The Presi- dent on the Stump," was by James Russell Lowell. The extract here printed fills all of the first column of the sheet and eight lines at the top of the second column. 1866 A Christmas Carol. | (Written for the Children's Fes- tival at the Church of Disciples, 1866.) | By James Russell Lowell. | (Not Published.) [Boston, 1866.] 8vo. A single sheet, printed on one side only, the above as a heading. The poem contains seven stanzas of four lines each. A "Christmas Hymn," two five-line stanzas, is appended. Size of type-page, 7 by 6% inches. This poem was collected in the "Heartsease and Rue" volume in The only copy of the broadside which I can trace is in the Aldis collec- tion in Yale University Library. The compilation "Poetry Lyrical, Narrative, and Satirical of the Civil War Selected and Edited by Richard Grant White.", New York, 1866, contains, on pp. 49-51, "Jonathan to John. | A Yankee Idyl. | By James Russell Lowell." This was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly, and re- printed in "Biglow Papers," Second Series, London, 1864. 1866 Meliboeus-Hipponax. | [rule] | The | Biglow Papers. | Second Series. | [quotation, 13 lines] | [Publishers' device] | Boston: | Ticknor and Fields. | 1867. 1751 Digitized by Microsoft® A CHRISTMAS CAROL. (Witrrrcff fob tub Children's Festival at the Cbubch OF Disciples, 1866.) Br JAMES BU3SKLL X.O'WTET-.L. (Nat Fahlirtied.] " What means this glory round oar feet,* The Magi mused, "more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, " To-day the Prince of Peace is barn ! " [One voice.] First Chorus. .- Chorus. " What means that star," the Shepherds aaidj "That brightens through the rocky glen T" And angels, answering overhead, Sang, " Peace on earth, good-mil to men I * {One voice.] 'Tis eighteen hundred years and more Since those sweet oracles were dumb; We wait for Him like them of yore; Alan, He seems so slow to come! But it was said in words of gold, No time or Borrow e'er shall dim, That little children might bo bold, In perfect trust to come to. Him. All round about onr feet shall shine A light like that the wise men saw, If we our loving wills incline To that sweet life which is the Law. So shall we learn to understand The simple faith of shepherds then, And kindly clasping hand in hand, Sing "Peace on earth, good-will to men!" For they who to their childhood cling And. keep their natures fresh as morn, Once more shall hear the angels sing, "To-day the Prince op Peace is noau." [^'i'.'S,^] CHRISTMAS HYMN. Silent Xight! Peaceful Night! All things sleep. — Shepherds keep "Watch on Bethlehem's holy hill; And nnscen, while all is still,. Angels watch above. Light around! Joyful Bound! Angel voices fill the air,. " Glory be to God in Heaven, Peace on Earth to you is given From this Christmas morn." [ REDUCED IN SIZE*] . C763 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL i2mo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1866) and imprint, pp. [ 1-4] ; Dedication, quotations, Contents, and Intro- duction, pp. [i]-lxxx; text and Index, pp. 1-258. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "The | Biglow | Papers | Lowell I ** ". Twelve copies were printed on large paper, size a small quarto, with the words "Biglow Papers" and "Boston" printed in red. Of the eleven chapters which make up this volume, all but No. VIII, "Ketelopotomachia," and No. IX, called in the Contents "Table-Talk," had already been printed in the Atlantic Monthly, the last, No. XI, appearing in the number for March, 1866. And, as already noted, all but Nos. VIII, IX, and XI had been reprinted in book-form in London by Triibner & Co. The volume was probably published about November I, 1866, as the copy given by Lowell to John Bartlett contains an inscription dated "5th Nov. 1866." This copy contains several corrections in manuscript by Lowell in the Introduction. With two exceptions, the changes indicated were made in later editions. It seems probable that the large-paper copies were printed off from the stereotype plates early in 1867. Only three of the twelve copies can now be traced. One, given to Longfellow and now in Harvard University Library, contains an inscription, "H. W. Longfellow | with the affectionate regards | of J. R. L. | 25th May 1867." It has on verso of title-page, in Lowell's autograph, "Twelve copies printed on large paper. J. R. L. No. 3." The copy given to Charles Eliot Norton (also in the Harvard Library) has an inscription, "Christmas 1867," but is unnumbered. The third, in the library of the late Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "has several marginal notes by the author." Lowell sent it to Aldrich on December 23, 1868, with the letter printed on pp. 126-127 of Scudder's "James Russell Lowell A Biog- raphy." As the name of the book is not mentioned in the letter, Mr. Scudder may be excused his error of supposing it to have been a copy of the "Commemoration Ode." Under date of August 29, 1902, Mr. Aldrich wrote : "Mr. Scudder made a mistake concerning the 'Commemoration Ode.' What Mr. Lowell gave me was a copy of 'The Biglow Papers'— one of a privately printed edition of 12 copies. The volume is a small quarto bound in blue cloth, and has several marginal notes by the author, making this copy unique. "Mr. Lowell in his letter to me (page 126 Vol. II of Scudder's biog- raphy) does not name the book he sends. I believe that only two copies of this edition of 'Biglow Papers' are known. The other ten copies were stolen from an express cart, on its way from the University Press to Lowell's house. So far as I know, these volumes have not turned up." "The Atlantic Almanac" for 1868 contains, on p. 37, "A June Day." This is an extract from "The Vision of Sir Launfal." 1771 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1868 Under the Willows | and | Other Poems. | By | James Russell Lowell. | Boston: | Fields, Osgood, & Co., | Successors to Ticknor and Fields. | 1869. i6mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1868) and imprint, Dedication, Note, and Contents, pp. [i]-viii; text, pp. [0J-286; slip of Erratum referring to p. 224 at end. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Under | The Willows | Lowell | Fields, Osgood & Co." In the second issue the error indicated on the erratum slip, which reads in full : "Erratum. | Page 224, 2d stanza, 3d line, for Thy read Its.", was corrected. Up to the issue of this volume in the fall of 1868, no new collection of Lowell's poems had appeared since that of 1849. Besides poems which had already appeared in periodicals or annuals, some pieces written years before were touched up and utilized. It was the author's intention at first to call the volume "A June Idyl and Other Poems," but James T. Fields, the publisher, told him that the title of Whittier's new volume was to be "A Summer Idyl," and so a change was made. As a matter of fact, how- ever, the title of Whittier's collection, when published, was "Among the Hills, and Other Poems." The copy given to John Bartlett has an inscription dated "20th Nov'r., 1868", and the copy given to E. P. Whipple has a similar inscription dated "21st NoVr, 1868." The following interesting letter, relating to royalties on "Under the Willows," is worth printing: "Elmwood, 7th May, 1869. "Dear Sir, This is to acknowledge the receipt from F. O. & Co. of a check for $416.75 (I wish it were for more!) & to say that I remain acces- sible, by mail or otherwise, to any further overtures you may please to make in the same kind. Pray do not suspect me of insincerity if I add that you may print as many editions as you like on the same terms. The dolts, it appears, begin to value my goods now that they have got an English ticket on 'em. As their moral tendency (I mean the goods, not the dolts) is irreproachable I beg you to remember that *be fruitful & multiply" was addressed to unfallen man. Therefore exhaust the plus side of mathematics on my works— square 'em, cube 'em, & you will have the blessing of "Yours very truly "J. R. Lowell." C783 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1868 The | Atlantic Almanac | 1869 j Edited by Donald G. Mitchell. | [ornament] | Contents. | The entire Con- tents of the present number are original, both the Literary and Artistic Departments | having been pre- pared expressly for the Atlantic Almanac. | [31 lines] | Boston: | Ticknor and Fields, | Office of the Atlantic Monthly. | (Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868, by Ticknor and Fields, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Dis- trict of Massachusetts.) Large 8vo. Collation : title and text, pp. [i]-66; advertisements, PP- [67]-8o. Plates, separately printed, facing pp. 4, 16, 25, and 40. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 10% by 8 inches. Issued in lithographed paper covers, printed in colors, p. [i] reading, "The | Atlantic | Almanac | 1869 | Published at the office of the Atlantic Monthly. | Boston: Ticknor and Fields." Advertisements on pp. 2, 3, and 4 of cover. On pp. 32, 33, 35, 36, and 37 is "My Garden Acquaintance. | By James Russell Lowell." This was collected in "My Study Windows," 1871. Pp. 34 and 38 contain the Calendar for September and October. The pamphlet "Sixty-Third Anniversary Celebration of the New England Society in the City of New York at Delmonico's Dec. 22, 1868." contains, on p. 63, a letter from Lowell, dated "Cambridge, Dec. 17, 1868." The collected edition of "Poems" published in 1869 contains this dedica- tion : "To George William Curtis This first complete edition of my Poems is affectionately inscribed." The collection, apparently, contains nothing new. 1869 The I Atlantic Almanac | 1870 | With Illustrations by | Darley, Gilbert, Eytinge, Brown, Fenn, DuMaurier, 1791 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Homer, Fredericks, Hennessy, | Hoppin, Perkins and others. | [rule] | Table of Contents. | [25 lines] | Boston: | Fields, Osgood, & Co., | Office of the Atlan- tic Monthly. | (Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by Fields, Osgood & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.) Large 8vo. Collation: title and text, pp. [i]-64; advertisements, pp. 65-72. Plates separately printed, facing title and pp. 17 and 49. Size of leaf, trimmed, 10% by 8 inches. Issued in lithographed paper covers, printed in colors, p. [1] reading, "The | Atlantic | Almanac | 1870 | Published at the Office of the Atlantic Monthly. | Boston : Fields, Osgood & Co." Advertisements on pp. 2, 3, and 4 of cover. Contains on pp. 39-41, 43-45, and 47, "A Good Word for Winter. | By- James Russell Lowell." Pp. 42 and 46 contain the Calendar for Novem- ber and December. A pamphlet printed as an advertisement of "George W. Minns' Scientific, Classical and Commercial School for Boys," Boston, 1869, contains, on p. 6, a short testimonial letter from J. R. Lowell. 1870 Among my Books. | By | James Russell Lowell, A.M., | Professor of Belles-Lettres in Harvard College. | [Publishers' device] | Boston: | Fields, Osgood, & Co. I 1870. i2mo. Collation: Blank, p. [1] ; list of Lowell's writings, p. [2] ; title, copyright (dated 1870) and imprint, Dedication, and Con- tents, pp. [i-v] ; text, pp. 1-380. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Among | My Books | Lowell". C8o3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL This, Lowell's second volume of prose essays, was published in Feb- ruary, 1870. The six essays had all appeared earlier in the columns of the North American Review. On July 6, 1869, Lowell wrote : "I have not for- gotten the volume of Essays. They come into my Budget for the year '69. I shall have them ready in a few weeks from now. I have been adding & annotating more or less all summer. I want them to be as good as I can make them. I propose to include only the critical ones, & only the best of those. Two hundred & fifty or three hundred pages, I suppose, will be as much as you want— so that six essays at most will fill up." 1870 The Cathedral. | By | James Russell Lowell. | [vignette] I Boston: | Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 1870. i2mo. Collation: Blank, p. [i] ; list of Lowell's writings, p. [2] ; half-title, quotation, title, copyright (dated 1869) and imprint, and Dedication, pp. [i-v] ; text, pp. 7— [53]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% by 4% inches. Issued in stamped cloth, back lettered lengthwise "The Ca- thedral". This poem, which was first called "A Day at Chartres," was written during the summer of 1869. In a letter to Charles Eliot Norton, Lowell says : "I wrote in pencil, then copied it out in ink, and worked over it as I never worked over anything before. I may fairly say there is not a word in it over which I have not thought, nor an objection which I did not foresee and maturely consider. Well, in my second copy I made many changes, as I thought for the better, and then put it away in my desk to cool for three weeks or so. When I came to print it, I put back, I believe, every one of the original readings which I had changed." The poem was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly for January, 1870, which was published early in December, 1869. Later in the month this volume appeared. From another letter, also written to Norton, we learn that it was an earlier text which had appeared in the magazine. In that letter, dated December 10, 1869, he says: "Those who have seen it think well of it. I shall contrive to send it you, and beg you not to read it in the Atlantic— for I have restored to it (they are printing it separately) some omitted passages, besides correcting a phrase here and there whose faultiness the stronger light of print revealed to me." 1870 Tributes | to the Memory of | Hon. John Pendleton Kennedy. | [Boston, 1870.] C813 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 8vo. Collation : No title-page, above at top of p. [ i ] ; text, pp. [i]-i6. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9% by 5% inches. Issued in paper cover, p. [1] with legend, "Tributes to the Memory of | Hon. John Pendleton Kennedy. | Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society." Other cover pages blank. Lowell's remarks are found on pp. 12-14, beginning: "Professor James Russell Lowell then said: — ", etc. While these "Tributes" were actually first printed in the Proceedings of the Society, this separate form is the more desirable. They first ap- peared in the pamphlet, without title, but with legend on the cover: "VII. I Proceedings | of the | Massachusetts Historical Society, | for | June, July, August, and September, 1870." The book is paged 321-384, Lowell's re- marks being on pp. 365-367. 1870 The I Poets and Poetry | of | Europe. | with | Introduc- tions and Biographical Notices. | By | Henry Wads- worth Longfellow. | A New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. | [quotation, 3 lines] | Philadelphia: | Porter and Coates, 822 Chestnut Street. | 1871. 8vo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1870) and im- print, Preface, Contents, Contents of the Supplement, Index of Authors, Index of Authors — Supplement, Translators, and Sources, Translators and Sources — Supplement, pp. [i-xxvii] ; text, pp. 1-776; text of Supplement, pp. [778]-9i6. Frontispiece (portrait of Goethe) and engraved title, separately printed. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9% by 6 X % 6 inches. Issued in stamped cloth, back lettered "Poets & Poetry | of | Europe | Henry W. Longfellow | Porter & Coates." This new edition was printed from the stereotyped plates used for the 1845 edition, but with a Supplement and additional preliminary pages. It was published in December, 1870. The Supplement contains one poem, "To Madame du Chatelet," trans- lated from Voltaire by Lowell, p. 841. Lowell's name does not appear with the poem, but in the "Contents," p. xvii, his name is given as trans- lator. The list of "Translators and Sources," p. xxvii, states that the contribution was printed from manuscript, and it was probably translated C82 3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL at Longfellow's request. In the Morgan library there is a manuscript of this poem in Lowell's autograph, signed "J. R. Lowell" and dated "14th Feby, 1871." On the same sheet is the following letter: "My dear Miss Alger "I send you a translation from a little poem of Voltaire. I have hardly done justice (not to say shown mercy) to the charm of the original. But it will serve the purpose for which you want it, I hope. "Very truly yours. "J. R. Lowell" As the poem was printed in Longfellow's volume, published in Decem- ber, 1870, this manuscript sent to Miss Alger cannot be the original. The poem has never been reprinted in any collected edition of Lowell's works. 1871 My Study Windows. | By | James Russell Lowell, A.M., I Professor of Belles-Lettres in Harvard Col- lege. I [Publishers' device] | Boston: | James R. Osgood and Company, | Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 1871. i2mo. Collation: Blank, p. [i] ; list of Lowell's writings, p. [2] ; title, copyright (dated 1871) and imprint, Prefatory Note, Dedi- cation, and Contents, pp. [i-v] ; text, pp. 1-433. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% 6 by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "My Study | Windows | Lowell". Copies of the first binding have the monogram of Fields, Osgood & Co. stamped at the bottom on the back, while later bindings have the monogram of James R. Osgood & Co. The monogram on the title-page of all copies seems to be that of James R. Osgood & Co., but Mr. Cham- berlain made a memorandum to look for copies without monogram on title, or with that of Fields, Osgood & Co. The Dedication is dated "Christmas 1870", and the book was published in January, 1871. The copies presented to E. P. Whipple and to John Bartlett contain each an inscription dated January 20, 1871. On December 26, 1870, Lowell wrote to his publishers : "I send you a prefatory note, & a dedication. I would rather the Pope should not go in, but you shall have your own way about it. I could not give it my last hand. If the book could wait till the middle of February, I might improve it. But you know best about that." C83 3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL The "Pope" did go in, and is the last essay in the volume. On July 31, 1871, he was "waiting for a new edition, in which the mis- prints are corrected", before sending a copy of the book to Norton. The Preface says that "the papers here gathered have been written at intervals during the last fifteen years." All had appeared in magazines except "My Garden Acquaintance" and "A Good Word for Winter," which, as already noted, appeared in "The Atlantic Almanac" for 1869 and 1870. The pamphlet "Reception tendered by the members of the Union League of Philadelphia to George H. Boker, Minister of the United States to Turkey. Friday Evening, December 22, 1871.", Philadelphia, 1872, con- tains, on p. 61, a letter from James Russell Lowell, six lines, dated "Elm- wood, 18th Dec. 1871," regretting his inability to be present. 1872 His Imperial Highness | The Grand Duke Alexis | in the I United States of America | During the Winter of 1871-72 I [quotation, 2 lines] | For Private Dis- tribution | Cambridge | Printed at the Riverside Press | 1872 8vo. Collation: Title and note, pp. [i-iii] ; text and Index, pp. [1-223]. With photographic frontispiece. Size of leaf, trimmed, 10 by 6% inches. Issued in full leather, back lettered "The | Grand Duke | Alexis | in the | United States". It is said that only fifty copies were printed at the expense of G. V. Fox, who had been the recipient of courtesies at the Court of Russia, and who took this method of showing his appreciation of the treatment ac- corded him there. The volume contains, on pp. 102-104, a speech by Lowell, "Mr. Lowell said,—" which has never been reprinted. One copy which I have seen has the inscription: "Presented to the Library | of the | M. M. Association | Lowell Oct. 2, 1872. | G. V. Fox." I have seen another copy with slightly different title. The two lines of quotation are higher on the page, and the line "For Private Distribution" is lowered. Between the two are two new lines " | By | William W. Tucker |." This copy is without the photographic frontispiece, which it seems never to have had. It is bound in half morocco, cloth sides, marbled edges, back lettered " | Grand | Duke | Alexis | ". Otherwise the two are identical. C843 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL The "Catalogue of the School of Modern Languages.", Cambridge, 1872, contains, among other testimonials, a letter from Lowell, dated "Cam- bridge, May 24, 1872." It is found on p. 24. 1874 Jeffries Wyman. | Memorial Meeting | of the | Boston Society of Natural History | October 7, 1874. [Bos- ton, 1874. J 8vo. Collation: Title, Contents, and text, pp. [i]-[39]. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9% by 6% inches. Issued in paper cover, p. 1 printed from the types of the title- page. Other cover-pages blank. On p. [3] is "Jeffries Wyman. | Died 4th September, 1874.", signed "J. R. L." These verses were first printed in the Nation of October 8, 1874. They were collected in "Heartsease and Rue," 1888. A pamphlet, pp. 1-16, being an advertisement of "The Complete Works of Charles Sumner," contains, on p. 7, a letter "From James Russell Lowell," beginning: "I am glad to hear that you have undertaken an edition of Mr. Sumner's collected works," etc. The only copy I have seen was bound at the end of a copy of "Prophetic Voices Concerning America. A Mono- graph. By Charles Sumner." Boston, 1874. A short letter from Lowell, regretting his inability to attend a dinner given by the New England Society in New York, is printed on p. 90 of an octavo pamphlet having the title : "Sixty-Ninth Anniversary Celebration of the New England Society in the City of New York at Delmonico's Dec. 22, 1874." 1875 Proceedings | at the | Centennial Celebration | of | Con- cord Fight I April 19, 1875. | [vignette] | Concord, Mass. | Published by the Town. | 1876. Large 8vo. Collation : Half-title, title, Preface, and Contents, pp. [1-7]; half-title, text, etc., pp. [9-176]. Portraits, separately printed, facing pp. [8] and [18], a vignette facing p. 74, and a C85H Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL facsimile, a folded sheet, facing p. [164]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 10% by 6% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Centennial | of | Concord Fight". Also in paper cover, p. [1], "1775. | Concord Fight. 1875." Other cover-pages blank. This volume contains: "Mr. Lowell then read the following:— | Ode. | I. I Who cometh over the hills,". Pp. 82-88. This Ode appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for June, 1875. It was col- lected in the volume "Three Memorial Poems" the next year. 1875 Cambridge in the "Centennial." | [ornament] | Pro- ceedings, I July 3, 1875, | in celebration of the | Cen- tennial Anniversary j of ! Washington's taking command | of the | Continental army, | On Cambridge Common. | [coat of arms] | Cambridge : | Printed by order of the City Council. | M DCCC LXXV. Large 8vo. Collation : Title, Order of Council and imprint, and Contents, pp. [i]~4; text, pp. [5-127] ; Frontispiece, the Wash- ington Elm, separately printed, facing title, and plate, Soldiers' Monument, facing p. 117. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9% by 6% inches. Issued in gray paper cover, p. [1] printed from the types of the title surrounded by a border. Also issued in cloth, back let- tered "Cambridge | July 3rd | 1775 | 1875". This volume contains "Poem, | By | James Russell Lowell." Pp. [27]- 38. At the end is the following note : "Note:— The Poem hy Prof. Lowell (as well as that by Dr. Holmes) is here printed by permission of H. O. Houghton & Co., publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, with alterations and additional lines." This poem, when it appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, had the title "Under the Great Elm," altered in the current editions to "Under the. Old Elm." It was collected the next year in the volume "Three Memorial Poems." The present volume also contains, on p. 87, " 'The Poet of the Day'. Response by Prof. James Russell Lowell, of Cambridge, the Poet of the Day." Twelve lines, in prose. [863 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1875 The Harvard Book. | A Series of | Historical, Biograph- ical, | and Descriptive | Sketches. | By | Various Authors. | Illustrated with Views and Portraits. | Col- lected and published | By | F. O. Vaille and H. A. Clark, | Class of 1874. | Vol. I. | [Vol. II.] | Cam- bridge: | Welch, Bigelow, and Company, | University Press. | 1875. 2 vols., 4to. Collation: Vol. I: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1875), Dedication, Preface, Contents, and Illustrations, pp. [i- xx] ; half-title and text, pp. [21-347]. With plates, separately printed, as enumerated in the list on pp. [xvii-xx]. Vol. II: Half-title, title, copyright, Contents, and Illustrations, pp. [i]- xiv; text, pp. [i5]-447. Plates, separately printed, as enumer- ated in the list on p. xiv. Size of leaf, trimmed, 13% by 10% inches. Pp- [iS7]-i72 contain "Class Day," by James Russell Lowell. This has, apparently, never been reprinted. 1875 Sheets for the Cradle | [double rule] | "Ipsa tibi blan- dos fundent cunabula flores." | [double rule] | Vol. I. — No. 1. Boston, December 6, 1875. Price 15 Cents. 4to. Consists of six numbers, the above being the heading of No. 1. Nos. 2-6 are dated December 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. Each number consists of eight pages, numbered [i]-8. Size of leaf, trimmed, 11% by 9 inches. This little paper, edited by Susan Hale, was published "daily at 5 P.M." for "The Grand Fair in Aid of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum." No. 5 C873 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL contains, on p. [i], "An Anecdote of Walter Savage Landor. | James Russell Lowell." This has never been collected. An advertising pamphlet published by the Nation, with the title, "Worth Reading. An Ideal Reformer. From 'The Nation.' New York, 1875," contains two pieces in verse by Lowell. "What Rabbi Jehosha Said," on p. [10], had already been collected in "Under the Willows" in 1868. "Jeffries Wyman | Died 4th September, 1874" had been printed in the "Memorial" in 1874. It was collected by Lowell in "Heartsease and Rue." 1875 Laurel Leaves. | Original | Poems, Stories, and Essays, | By I Henry W. Longfellow, John G. Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William | Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, | J. T. Trowbridge, E. P. Whipple, | T. W. Higginson, | Louisa M. Alcott, | Gail Hamil- ton, Harriet Prescott | Spofford, H.H., Louise Chand- ler Moulton, Nora Perry, Sarah | Helen Whitman, Margaret J. Preston, Bayard Taylor, R. H. | Stod- dard, Alfred Tennyson, A. C. Swinburne, Charles Kings- I ley, Tom Taylor, Edward Eggleston, J. W. DeForrest, j George Cary Eggleston, William Ellery Channing, | J. Boyle O'Reilly, William Winter, Ed- ward S. I Rand, Jr. William Mathews, A. Bronson Al- I cott, Charles Dudley Warner, John Paul, | Wil- liam F. Gill, Frederic Viaux. | Illustrated. | Boston: | William F. Gill and Company, | 309 Washington Street. | [rule] | 1876. 8yo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1875) and imprint, pp. [i-ii] ; half-title, Dedication, Facsimile, Preface, Contents, and List of Illustrations, pp. [iiij-xv; half-titles and text, pp. [17]- 446. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 6% 6 inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Laurel I Leaves". cssn Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL This volume contains two pieces by Lowell: (i) "Gloria Mundi. | By James Russell Lowell." P. 103. This has never been collected. (2) "To a Friend, | who gave me a Group of Weeds and | Grasses. | (After a draw- ing of Diirer.) J. R. Lowell." P. 302. This had appeared in The Mer- cantile, March 21, 1875. It was collected in "Heartsease and Rue," 1888. "The Ark," edited by Susan Hale for a fair held by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and of which eight numbers were pub- lished from February 22 to March 2, 1875, contains eight lines of verse by James Russell Lowell, beginning: "The little bird sits at his door in the sun." This is an extract from "The Vision of Sir Launfal," published in 1848. 1876 Among my Books. | Second Series. | By | James Russell Lowell, I Professor of Belles-Lettres in Harvard Col- lege. I [Publishers' device] | Boston: | James R. Osgood and Company, | Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 1876. i2mo. Collation: Blank, p. [i] ; list of Lowell's writings, p. [2] ; title, copyright (dated 1875) and imprint, Dedication, and Con- tents, pp. [i-v] ; text, pp. 1-327. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Among | My Books | Lowell". In the earliest issue, apparently a few copies only, the copyright entry on reverse of title is dated 1875. The book was not published until January, 1876, and most copies have the copyright date corrected to 1876. On July 4, 1875, Lowell wrote to James R. Osgood, his publisher : "You will remember that I fixed 'after Commencement' as the date after which I should have enough collectedness of mind to go on with the volume. I shall take up my proofs again on Tuesday, and hurry as fast as conscience will allow." The work was "broken off by an illness," and on November 20 he was still "fussing over the volume . . ." and "fussing, too, without much progress." On December 15 he wrote : "This is the first day I have had free of proof-sheets." On December 25 he wrote to a correspondent whose name Professor Norton does not give : "I had hoped before this to nson Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL have sent you my new book, but it hung long on my hands and is not yet out." On January 17, 1876, he wrote to the same correspondent: "I sent you day before yesterday [i.e. January 15] my new book, and that copy was the first I sent to any one." Nevertheless the copy presented by Lowell to Professor Norton has an inscription dated January 13. Later, on May 15, Lowell wrote to Leslie Stephen : "I have published another volume, and I ought long ago to have sent you a copy, but I took a disgust at it so soon as I saw it in print. I was really ill all the time it was going through the press, so that I sometimes could not even read a proof for weeks, and had to put in at random some things I would rather have left for a posthumous edition of my works (if I ever have one), when people read with kindlier eyes." This volume includes five essays : "Dante," "Spenser," "Wordsworth,"' "Milton," and "Keats." Three of them had already appeared in the North American Review, the "Milton" in January, 1872, as a review of Masson's "Life of Milton" ; the "Dante" in July, 1872, as a review of Miss Rossetti's "The Shadow of Dante" ; and the "Spenser" in April, 1875. The "Keats" and "Wordsworth" are the introductions written for the works of these two poets in 1854, but both are in large part rewritten. 1876 Three Memorial Poems. | By | James Russell Lowell. | [quotation, 1 line] | Boston: | James R. Osgood and Company, | Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Os- good, & Co. | 1877. i2mo. Collation : Blank, p. [i] ; list of Lowell's writings, p. [2] ; half-title, title, copyright (dated 1876) and imprint, Dedication, ornament, Poem, To the Readers, Contents, ornament, half-title, ornament, and text, pp. [i]~92. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% by SYs inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered lengthwise "Three Memorial Poems Lowell". The three poems which make up the volume are : "Ode read at Concord, April 19, 1875." "Under the Old Elm." "An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876." The first two had been included in the volumes issued to commemorate the Battle of Concord, and Washington's taking command of the Army, as already noted. The Fourth of July Ode appeared in the Atlantic C903 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Monthly for December, 1876, published, we may presume, almost simul- taneously with this volume. Resides these poems there is a preliminary sonnet, "If I let fall a word of bitter mirth," here first printed. A privately printed pamphlet having the title: "Alpha Delta Phi Reunion Dinner In New York 1875 With a Register of Members in New York," New York, 1876, contains, on p. 16, a letter, six lines, dated "Elmwood, 17th, Nov. 1875" and signed "J. R. Lowell." "Silhouettes and Songs," a volume of illustrations and selections pub- lished in Boston, in 1876, contains, as a selection for May, an extract from "The Biglow Papers," Second Series, beginning "Jes' so our Spring gits everythin' in tune." 1877 Old South Meeting-House. | Report | of a | Meeting of the inhabitants of Cambridge, | in | Memorial Hall, Harvard College, | January 18th, 1877. | [rule] | Addresses by | President Charles W. Eliot, | Prof. James Russell Lowell, | Rev. Alexander McKenzie, | Hon. Charles T. Russell, | Chief-Justice Charles L. Bradley, | Rev. George Z. Gray, | Rev. George W. Briggs. | [rule] | Boston : | Press of George H. Ellis. I 1877. 8vo. Collation: Title and text, pp. [i]-20,. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in gray paper cover, p. [1] printed from the types of the title-page, but within a double-rule frame. Other cover- pages blank. The "Address of James Russell Lowell." occupies pp. 6-10. It seems never to have been reprinted. 1877 Tribute | of the | Massachusetts Historical Society j To the Memory | of | Edmund Quincy | and | John C90 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Lothrop Motley | [rule] | Boston | Massachusetts Historical Society | 1877 8vo. Collation: Title, imprint, and text, pp. [i]~30. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9% by 6% inches. Issued in paper cover, p. i printed from the types of the title- page, but within a double-rule frame. Lowell's tribute to Quincy, headed: "Professor James Russell Lowell then said:", is on pp. 9-11. In the "Proceedings" of the Society for 1876 and 1877, Boston, 1878, these "Remarks" occur on pp. 286, 287. The section containing pp. 249 to 404 of the volume was issued somewhat earlier than this separate. It is in paper cover, with cover title: "III. | Proceedings | of the | Massa- chusetts Historical Society. | March to December, 1877. | (Inclusive.)" 1877 Golden Songs of Great Poets. | [ornament] | Regia, Crede mini, res est. | [ornament] | Illustrated by | Darley, Moran, Hart, Fredericks, Smillie, and Mc- Entee. | [ornament] | New York: | Sarah H. Leggett, I No. 1184 Broadway. I 1877. 8vo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1877), Contents, blank leaf, and engraved title, pp. [i-xi] ; half-title and text, 41 leaves printed on recto only. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 6% inches. Issued in stamped cloth, back lettered lengthwise "Golden Songs of Great Poets." Front cover with facsimile signatures, in gilt, of Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Taylor, and Holmes. "The Fire-Fly: A Parable," by Lowell, occupies three leaves. This was first collected in "Heartsease and Rue," 1888. 1877 Papers | Relating to the | Foreign Relations | of | The United States. | Transmitted to Congress, | With the n923 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Annual Message of the President, | December 3, 1877. | Preceded by a | List of Papers and followed by an Index of | Persons and Subjects. | [rule] | Washington : | Government Printing Office. | 1 877. 8vo. Collation: Title, Message, and List, pp. [i]-xlviii; text and Index, pp. 1-654. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Message | And Documents | Dep't. State | 1878-79." Mr. Lowell was appointed by President Hayes as United States Min- ister to Spain, and he arrived at Madrid on August 14, 1877. On the 18th of the same month he was presented at court and took up the duties of his office. This volume (and others to be described later) contains some of his letters, addressed to the Secretary of State and to others, on official business. Selections were republished in the volume "Impressions of Spain" and extracts are included in Scudder's Life of Lowell, but the mass of his correspondence is unpublished elsewhere. Each of these volumes was also issued with a different title, "Index to the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives," etc., and with some additional matter. That form is a reissue, the imprint being always a year later. The present volume includes a letter from Mr. Lowell to Secretary of State Evarts, dated "Madrid, October 12, 1877", together with four other documents by him, addressed to Mr. Silvela, Spanish Minister of State. These occupy pp. 521-525. "The Life of Edgar Allan Poe" by William F. Gill, New York and Phila- delphia, 1877, contains, on pp. 152-158, Lowell's article on Poe, extracted from Graham's Magazine for February, 1845, which had been reprinted earlier in Griswold's edition of Poe's works, 1850. The volume also con- tains, on p. 283, a letter (seven lines) from Lowell to Miss Sarah S. Rice, Corresponding Secretary of the Poe Monument Association, Baltimore. The "Memorial of Fitz-Greene Halleck," New York, 1877, contains, on p. 40, a short letter from Lowell, dated "Elmwood, 7th May, 1877." 1878 No Name Series. | "Is the Gentleman anonymous? Is he a great unknown?" | Daniel Deronda. | [orna- ment] I A I Masque of Poets. | Including | Guy Ver- C93 3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL non, a Novelette in Verse. | Boston: | Roberts Brothers. | 1878. i6mo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1878), Con- tents, quotation, vignette, pp. [1-10] ; text, pp. [u]-30i; quota- tion, vignette, and quotation, p. [302]. Publishers' lists on lining papers, front and back. A slip, printed on colored paper, begin- ning, "Publishers' Notice. | Editors and all others reprinting sin- gle poems, etc.", is inserted before the title-page. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% 6 by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "A | Masque | of Poets | No Name Series | Roberts | Brothers | Boston". This volume contains two short poems by Lowell: (1) "My Heart, I cannot still it," p. 142. Collected in "Heartsease and Rue," 1888, with the title "Auspex." (2) "Red Tape," p. 153. This was also included in the "Heartsease and Rue" volume, but with title altered to "The Brakes." 1878 Papers | Relating to the | Foreign Relations | of | The United States, | Transmitted to Congress, | With the Annual Message of the President, | December 2, 1878. I Preceded by a | List of Papers and followed by an Index of | Persons and Subjects. | [rule] | Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1878. 8vo. Collation: Title, Message, and List, pp. [i]— xlviii; text and Index, pp. [i]-976. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Message | and | Documents | Dep't. State | i8;8-'79". This volume includes nineteen letters from Lowell, thirteen having been addressed to Secretary of State Evarts, and six to Mr. Silvela, the Spanish Minister of State. They occupy, with other correspondence, pp. 764-804. The selections printed by Mr. Gilder are taken from this vol- ume and the next. The "Diary of Samuel Sewall," forming Volumes V, VI, and VII of the Fifth Series of the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, C943 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL was prepared for the press by a Committee of Publications consisting of George E. Ellis, William H. Whitmore, Henry Warren Torrey, and James Russell Lowell. The first volume appeared in 1878, the second in 1879, and the third in 1882. Lowell, probably, had very little to do with it, and no collector would care to include a set among his first editions of Lowell's works. Lowell's poem "The Rose," published separately, with illustrations, in 1878, is one of his earliest pieces, having been printed first in The Pioneer in 1843 and collected in "Poems," 1844. 1879 Papers | Relating to the |* Foreign Relations | of | The United States, | Transmitted to Congress, | With the Annual Message of the President, | December 1, 1879. | Preceded by a | List of Papers and followed by an Index of | Persons and Subjects. | [rule] ] Washington : | Government Printing Office. | 1 879. 8vo. Collation: Title, Message, and List, pp. [i]-lxxiv; text and Index, pp. [i]-io93. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Message | and | Documents. [ Dep't State. I 1879." Twelve letters from Lowell are included in this volume, nine addressed to Secretary of State Evarts, and three to the Spanish Minister of State, Mr. Silvela, and his successor in office, the Duke of Tetuan. They oc- cupy, with related correspondence, pp. 935-955. The first of the series of letters to Evarts, dated October 29, 1878, had already been printed in the preceding volume of "Papers." In 1879 Allan Thorndike Rice reprinted a number of contributions to the North American Review in a volume with the title, "Essays from the North American Review." Lowell's "Shakespeare Once More," which had appeared in the magazine for April, 1868, occupies pp. 377-432. It had, however, already appeared in "Among My Books," published in 1870. 1880 Spare Minute Series. | True Manliness. | From the Writings of Thomas Hughes. | Selected by | E. E. [95:1 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Brown. | With an Introduction by | James Russell Lowell. | Boston: | D. Lothrop and Co., | Franklin Street, Corner of Hawley. 8vo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1880), Biographical Sketch, "Thomas Hughes", pp. [iii]-xxii; text, pp. 13-300; In- dex, pp. ccci, cccii. Publishers' list bound in at end, pp. [1-10]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% 6 by 4 1 %e inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "True | Manliness | Thomas Hughes I Introduction By | J. R. Lowell | Boston | D. Lothrop &Co." There is a "Preliminary Note", signed at end "J. R. L.," on pp. v, vi. Judge Hughes was one of Lowell's dearest friends in England. 1880 Papers | Relating to the | Foreign Relations | of | The United States, | Transmitted to Congress, | With the Annual Message of the President, | December 6, 1880. | Preceded by a | List of Papers and followed by an Index of | Persons and Subjects. | [rule] | Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1880. 8vo. Collation: Title, Message, and List, pp. [i]-lxxxvii; text and Index, pp. [i]-ioo,i. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Message | and | Documents | Dep't State | i88o-'8i". Two letters from Lowell to Secretary of State Evarts, and two others to the Spanish Minister of State, are printed on pp. 887-890. Lowell was, during the year, transferred to the Court of St. James, arriving in London on March 7, 1880. Four letters from Lowell to Evarts, two to Lord Granville, and one to Lieutenant Greely are printed on pp. 479-484; also a short letter to Secretary Evarts on p. 588. 1881 Death of President Garfield | Meeting of Americans in London | At Exeter Hall 24 September 1881 | To Caen Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL which is added by permission | The Address of | His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury | Delivered at the church of | St. Martin's-in-the-Fields | 26 Sep- tember 1881 | [ornament] j London: Benjamin Franklin Stevens | 4 Trafalgar Square Charing Cross | 1881 8vo. Collation: Half-title, title, Preface, and text, pp. [i]-6o. Imprint at bottom of p. 60. Photograph of Garfield facing title. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 8% by 6 inches. Issued in white cloth, front cover printed from the types of the half-title, "In Memoriam | James Abram Garfield | Born 19 November 1831 | Died 19 September 1881". Another edition, printed on inferior paper, was issued in blue paper covers, with trimmed edges. Five copies were printed on vellum, appar- ently at a later date. The Preface, pp. 5-8, is by Lowell; also the Address, pp. 11-21. In a presentation copy from Lowell to Benjamin H. Ticknor there is a manuscript correction in line 8, p. 5, "sincere" being changed to "spon- taneous". It was this which led Mr. Chamberlain to suppose that the book was compiled by Lowell and that he wrote the Preface. He sought for confirmation of this from Mr. Charles Eliot Norton, who replied, in a letter dated December 5, 1902 : "In looking at my copy of the Garfield Memorial volume, my impres- sion is confirmed that Mr. Lowell did not write the Preface. If I remem- ber correctly, he told me that the volume was got up by Mr. B. F. Stevens, and I am inclined to believe that Mr. Stevens was the author of the Preface." Nevertheless Mr. Norton was mistaken, for I have seen two 1 pages of the "Preface" in Lowell's autograph. With it was one of the five copies of the book printed on vellum, containing this inscription : "To I Mr. B. F. Stevens, | with the sincere regards | of | J. R. Lowell. | (Five copies printed on vellum at the suggestion | & under the superin- tendence of Mr. Stevens.) No. 2." This copy of the book was accompanied by the following letter, dated "10th September, 1883": "Dear Mr. Stevens, "One of the Copies belongs naturally to you & if it did n't I should prefer to give it that destination. So pray accept it. "I enclose my check to your order for ^24-7-6 to pay charges of printing. ^^ yQurs ^ r ^^ Z971 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL This manuscript, book, and letter are owned by Mr. Henry W. Thomp- son (long an associate of Mr. Stevens), to whom they were presented by Mrs. Stevens. What disposition Mr. Lowell made of the four other copies on vellum I have been unable to trace. Lowell's address was reprinted in "Democracy and Other Addresses," 1884. In the printed "Exercises in celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge, Held December 28, 1880," Cambridge, 1881, a letter from Lowell, dated "Legation of the United States, London, Dec. 5, 1880," occupies p. 12. 1882 Sir Walter Raleigh | and | America. | [rule] | A Sermon I Preached at | St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, | on May 14, 1882, | By the Rev. Canon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S., | At the Unveiling of the | "Raleigh Win- dow," | The Gift of American Citizens. | [rule] | Published by Request. | [rule] |. London : | Printed at the "Anglo-American Times" Press, | 127, Strand, WC 8vo. Collation : No title-page, above is p. [ i ] of cover. Preface and text, pp. [i]-2i. Plate, a photograph mounted on a sheet, separately printed, facing p. [i]. Size of leaf, trimmed, g 5 / 8 by S% 6 inches. Issued in paper cover, p. [i] as above. Other cover-pages blank. Lowell's lines written for the Raleigh window are printed on p. 7. The same four lines are printed below the photographic frontispiece. They were collected in "Heartsease and Rue." 1882 Papers | Relating to the | Foreign Relations | of | The United States, | Transmitted to Congress, | With the C98H Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Annual Message of the President, | December 5, 1881. | Preceded by a | List of Papers and followed by an Index of | Persons and Subjects. | [rule] | Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1882. 8vo. Collation: Title, Message, and List, pp. [i]-xcii; text and Index, pp. [i]-i250. Size of leaf; trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Message | and | Documents | Dep't State. | 1881-82." On pp. 492-560, interspersed with related correspondence, there are printed thirty-four letters and notes of James Russell Lowell. Three are addressed to William M. Evarts, Secretary of State; fourteen to his suc- cessor in office, James G. Blaine; eleven to Earl Granville; and six to other correspondents. 1883 Papers | Relating to the | Foreign Relations | of | The United States, | Transmitted to Congress, | With the Annual Message of the President, | December 4, 1882. I Preceded by a | List of Papers and followed by an Index of | Persons and Subjects. | [rule] | Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1883. 8vo. Collation: Title, Message, and List, pp. [i]-liii; text and Index, pp. [i]-S57. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Message [ and | Documents | Dep't State. | 1882-83." This volume includes, scattered through other correspondence between pp. 192 and 291, sixty-two letters by Lowell. Twenty-three were addressed to the Secretary of State, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ; eighteen to Earl Granville; and twenty-one to other persons; mainly relating to the re- straint of American citizens in Ireland. 1884 Address | Delivered before the Birmingham and Mid- land Institute, | at Birmingham, | On Monday, Oc- C993 Digitized by Microsoft® ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND INSTITUTE AT BIRMINGHAM, On Monday, October 6tk, 1884, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. D.C.L.. LL.D, &c. &c. TITLE-PAGE OF THE PRIVATE EDITION OF "ON DEMOCRACY" [ SIZE OF ORIGINAL ] ClOO] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL tober 6th, 1884, | By | James Russell Lowell, D.C.L., LL.D., &c, &c. Small 4to. Collation: Title, p. [i] ; blank, p. [2] ; text, pp. [2]- 24, printed on recto only, verso of each leaf blank. Size of leaf, trimmed, o.% 6 by 7% 6 inches. Issued stitched, without cover. Consists of twenty-four leaves, signatures A, B, C, D, E, and F, each four leaves. There are no head-lines, the page-numbers being at the top in the center. At the bottom of p. 24 is the imprint "Harrison and Sons, Printers, St. Martin's Lane, London." This first issue was printed off in London before Lowell left for Bir- mingham to deliver the address. Four copies are now traceable, two of which have corrections in Lowell's own autograph, and a third has similar corrections in another hand. Of the copies with autographic corrections, one, formerly in the possession of Mr. Hodgson, who was connected at the time with the American Embassy in London, was acquired by Mr. Chamberlain. A second, the one from which Mr. Lowell read the address, is owned by Wilson King of Birmingham, to whom it was presented by Lowell. A third, the William Harris Arnold copy, belongs to Dr. James B. Clemens ; and the fourth, given by Lowell to Mr. Bowditch, belongs to Mr. Stephen H. Wakeman. In a letter to Mr. Chamberlain, dated April 27, 1902, Mr. King wrote : "He made the marginal notes when sitting with Professor Mahaffy and me reading over his essay but at the same time joining in our conversation. He was in great spirits during the whole visit of five days and he and Dr. Mahaffy both sparkled and scintillated with fun all day. In the evenings we had dinner parties with the leading people of the neighborhood as guests when they had to be on their good behavior but the rest of the time they were like two jolly school boys out for a holiday." The correc- tions in the third copy, now in Dr. Clemens's collection, are in the auto- graph of Mr. Hodgson. The corrections in the King copy differ from the other two, which are practically identical. At Mr. Chamberlain's request, a friend of his made an effort to secure the manuscript of the address from the printers, Harrison and Sons, and also to ascertain the exact number printed. In a letter dated June 6, 1902, he wrote : "I next went to see Harrison. He said after the lapse of so many years he could not say anything about the matter, but it was their invari- able custom to destroy all mss. not returned to the author, and as the order to print came from the U. S. embassy, it is quite likely the manu- script was returned to the embassy; That even though Mr. Lowell was long since dead, they would give no information concerning the number of copies printed (that is no certificate) as it would be a violation of a fixed principle, but after referring to his books, he told me that 500 copies C10O Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL were printed, and this, in great primer, and he assumed that they were not intended for circulation." It is impossible, however, that so large a number was actually printed. Mr. King was under the impression that this earliest form was a "proof prepared for the London Times," and writes further, under date of July 7, 1902: "As to the printing of the first edition, I feel pretty sure Mr. Lowell told me he had sent the ms. to the Times from which journal he had re- ceived the proof from which he read the address which I now have. Of course in that case any number of proofs may have been made, and Mr. Lowell may even have written on the margins of some copies (for friends) such small changes as he might recall having made." The address appeared in the London Times probably the morning after its delivery. It also appeared in the Pall Mall Budget (a weekly) in the issue of October 10, 1884, with the following prefatory note: "In view of the exceptional interest attaching to Mr. Lowell's inaugural address on Monday last as President of the Midland Institute we reproduce the American Minister's speech in extenso. Mr. Lowell's address, which has been specially revised by himself for these columns, was as follows :". The text of the address as printed in these two periodicals has not been compared with this text or with that of the essay as published. 1884 Birmingham and Midland Institute. | [ornament] | On Democracy: | An Address | Delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, | On the 6th of October, 1884, | By | His Excellency, | The Hon. James Russell Lowell, | D.C.L., LL.D., | American Minister in Lon- don, | President. | [ornament] | Birmingham: | Printed by Cond Bros., Paternoster Row, | Moor Street. 8vo. Collation: Title and text, pp. [i]-i5- Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 5% inches. Issued stitched, without cover. There is another variety with "Price Sixpence." printed in the Upper left-hand corner of the title-page. Mr. Wilson King of Birmingham, who had been asked by Mr. Cham- berlain as to the significance of the two editions, replied (in a letter dated July 7, 1902) : Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL "I will enquire about the 'six pence' edition but I feel sure that that was the same as the Institute edition, a part of which was distributed gratuitously to members or subscribers whilst another part was sold to the general public at 6d per copy." When originally sent out, a two-page circular of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, soliciting memberships, accompanied the pamphlet. Since $110 was paid for a copy of this pamphlet at the William Harris Arnold sale in January, 1901, a considerable number of copies have come upon the market, secured partly from Cond Brothers, the printers, and partly from officials of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. When sending Mr. Chamberlain two copies, Mr. King wrote that the Institute still possessed ten copies, but that no more could be had from that source, as they usually made a point of keeping twelve copies of each presidential address. "On Democracy" was collected with other addresses in the volume "Democracy and Other Addresses," published in the fall of 1886. 1884 Birmingham | Health Lectures, | with | Preface | by | His Excellency the Hon. James Russell Lowell | D.C.L., LL.D., I United States Minister in Lon- don; I President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. | [rule] | Second Series. | [rule] | Birming- ham: I Hudson and Son, Edmund Street. | London: | Hamilton, Adams, and Co., Paternoster Row. | [rule] I 1884. i2mo. Collation: Title, Contents, and Preface, pp. [i]-vii; text, pp. [i]-ii2. Imprint at bottom of p. 112, "Hudson and Son, Printers, Edmund Street, Birmingham." Issued in gray paper cover, p. [1] reading: "Birmingham | Health Lectures | 1884 : | With Preface by his Excellency | The Honourable James Russell Lowell, | [etc.] Price Ninepence." There are advertisements on pp. [2, 3, and 4] of cover, and ten pages of advertisements at back and front. On pp. [v]-vii will be found the "Preface," signed "J. R. Lowell." and dated "January 5th, 1885." DCS;] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1884 Browning Society. | [rule] | Monthly Abstract of Pro- ceedings. | [rule] | Twenty-fourth Meeting, Friday, April 24, 1884. 8vo. Collation: 12 pp., numbered H3*-i24*. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% 6 by 5% inches. Issued stitched, without cover. At this meeting Mr. Lowell occupied the chair and delivered an address on Browning, which fills line 5, p. 113* to line 9, p. 116*. There is a head- line on pp. 114* and 115*, "Mr. J. Russell Lowell on Browning's Works." A comment by Lowell on a paper by Mr. Morrison fills the lower two thirds of p. 124*. The head-line of each page except the first is dated "April 4, 1884." while the date at the top of the first page is "April 24, 1884." Both dates are apparently incorrect, as in the collected form, where these Proceedings are reprinted, it is called the "Twenty-fourth Meeting Friday, April 25, 1884." This "Monthly Abstract" is the earliest printed form. Later in the year it was reprinted in "The Browning Society's Papers 1881-4. Part V." Lowell's address is found on pp. Ii2*-H5* of that part. 1884 [Double rule] | Transactions | of | The Wordsworth Society. '| Edited by | The Hon. Secretary. [ No. 6. | [double rule] | [Edinburgh, 1884.] 8vo. Collation: Title, Preface, and Contents, pp. [i-v] ; half- title, text, half-title, and catalogue of Wordsworth's library, pp. [7]— 257 ; photograph facing title. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 5% 6 inches. Issued in limp boards, cloth back, front cover lettered "Trans- actions I of the I Wordsworth | Society | No. VI. | Edinburgh : T. & A. Constable, Printers to her Majesty." Back cover let- tered "It is requested that Members changing | their address will mention the fact to the | Secretary." Ci043 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL James Russell Lowell's address, as President of the Society, delivered May 10, 1884, is found on pp. 12-24. It was collected in the volume "Democracy and other Addresses," published late in 1886. In 1889 it was reprinted in the volume "Wordsworthiana, A Selection from Papers read to the Wordsworth Society," edited by William Knight. 1884 Emmanuel College | Cambridge | Commemoration | of the Three hundredth Anniversary [ of | The Founda- tion I MDCCCLXXXIV 8vo. Collation : Half-title, imprint, and title, pp. [i-iii] ; text, pp. [ I l~99; imprint, p. [100]. Frontispiece portrait, separately printed. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 8% by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, front cover lettered "Tercentenary Festival | of I Emmanuel College | Cambridge". On pp. 9, 10 is a toast by Lowell: "Mr. Russell Lowell, who was re- ceived with I cheers, said : | 'It has been my good fortune to address many English I audiences, [etc.]'" 1884 Papers | Relating to the | Foreign Relations | of | The United States, | Transmitted to Congress, | With the Annual Message of the President, | December 4, 1883. | Prefaced by a | List of Papers and followed by an Index of | Persons and Subjects. | [rule] | Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1884. 8vo. Collation: Title, Message, and List, pp. [i]-lxx; text and Index, pp. [i]-948. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Foreign | Relations | of the I United | States | 1883". This volume contains, on pp. 408-479, twenty-eight letters by Lowell, eighteen having been addressed to Mr. Frelinghuysen and eight to Earl Granville. CI05 3 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL One of Lowell's communications to the Department of State was issued separately as a stitched pamphlet of 16 pp., with heading at top of p. i, "Unclaimed Estates in England. | Mr. Lowell to the Secretary of State. | (No. 895) Legation of the United States, | London, November IS, 1884." It consists of a series of letters relative to claims for estates in Eng- land. Lowell's letter transmitting the others to the Secretary of State occupies p. [1]. In "Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife", Boston, 1884, there is printed (Vol. I, pp. 390-392) an interesting letter of Lowell's referring to Haw- thorne's literary work. 1885 Celebration | of the | Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anni- versary I of I The Incorporation | of | Concord, | Sep- tember 12, 1885. I 1635-1885 | [ornament] | Con- cord, Mass. : | Published by the Town | 8vo. Collation: Title, imprint, Preface, and "At the General Court," etc., text, and Appendix, pp. [1-96]. Size of leaf, un- trimmed, 9% by 5% inches. Issued in blue paper covers, p. 1 printed from the types of the title-page. Also issued in cloth, back lettered "Celebration | at | Concord | Sept. 12, 1885. | 1635-1885" This volume contains an address by Lowell on Concord in Literature, headed, "Mr. Lowell's Speech." Pp. 65-69. It has apparently never been collected. 1885 Wensley | And other Stories | By Edmund Quincy | Edited by his son, Edmund Quincy | [device] | Bos- ton I James R. Osgood and Company | 1885 i2mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1885) and imprint, and Editor's Preface, pp. [i]-iv; "Bankside," pp. [v]-vii; Author's Preface, Contents, pp. [ix-xv] ; half-title and text, pp. 1-349. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% 6 by 4% inches. Issued in red cloth, back lettered "Edmund | Quincy | Wens- ley I and I Other Stories | James R. Osgood & Co." CI063 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Edmund Quincy and James Russell Lowell were long intimate friends. In 1877 Lowell had written a poem, "Bankside," on the home of Quincy at Dedham. This was published in the Nation for May 31 of that year. It is prefixed to this volume of stories : "Bankside. | By James Russell Lowell. I May 21, 1877." Pp. [v]-vii. It was collected in the "Heartsease and Rue" volume in 1888. 1885 Proceedings | at | the presentation of a portrait | of | John Greenleaf Whittier | To Friends' School, Provi- dence, R. I. I Tenth Month, 24th, 1884 | Cambridge | Printed at the Riverside Press | 1885 8vo. Collation: Title, Contents, pp. [i]-iv; text, pp. [i]~92. Portrait facing title, and plates facing pp. i and 92. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 5% inches. Issued in paper covers, p. [1] reading: "Proceedings | at the presentation of a portrait of | John Greenleaf Whittier, to Friends' | School, Providence, R. I., Tenth Month, 24th, 1884". Lowell's sonnet "To J. G. Whittier" is on p. 82. It was collected, with the title "To Whittier on his seventy-fifth Birthday," in "Heartsease and Rue," 1888. The sonnet is preceded by a letter addressed to Augustine Jones, Esq., signed "J. R. Lowell," dated "Legation of the United States | London, September n, 1884." 1885 Papers | Relating to the | Foreign Relations | of | The United States. | Transmitted to Congress, | With the Annual Message of the President, | December 1, 1884, I Preceded by a | List of Papers and followed by an Index | of Persons and Subjects. | [device] | Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1885. 8vo. Collation: Title, Message, and List, pp. [i]-lxx; text and Index, pp. [i]-6i9. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Issued in cloth, back lettered "Foreign | Relations | of the | United | States | 1884". This volume contains ten letters by Lowell, occupying, with other correspondence, pp. 214-225. Seven were addressed to Mr. Frelinghuysen, the last, dated November 15, 1884, being his letter, with enclosure, relating to unclaimed estates in England, which was separately printed as described above (p. 106). Of the three other letters, two were addressed to Earl Granville, and one to Lord Northbrooke. Three letters by Lowell were printed in "John Howard Payne, Dramatist, Poet, Actor, and Author of Home Sweet Home!" by Gabriel Harrison, Philadelphia, 1885. They refer to the removal of the remains of John Howard Payne to the United States, and had already been printed in "Foreign Relations of the United States," 1883. Lowell was invited to deliver an address at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Newbury, Mass., held on June 10, 1885. His letter declining the honor is printed on pp. 17 and 18 of the pamphlet published by the Historical Society, having the title: "Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Newbury, June 10, 1885. Newburyport: Printed by order of the Historical Society of Old Newbury. MDCCCLXXXV." In the "Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society," Vol. I, Sec- ond Series, Boston, 1885, there is, on p. 229, a short letter from Lowell, dated "June 20, 1884." 1886 Proceedings | at the | Dedication | of the | New Library Building | Chelsea, Mass. | December 22, 1885 | With the | Address by James Russell Lowell | [device] | Cambridge | John Wilson and Son | Uni- versity Press | 1886 8vo. Collation: Half-title, p. [i] ; title and text, pp. [1-33]. Frontispiece. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9% by 5% inches. Issued in boards, p. [1] printed from the types of the title- page. This volume contains Lowell's Address on Books and Libraries : "Ad- dress. I By James Russell Lowell." Pp. 16-30. It was collected in "Democracy and Other Addresses," published late in 1886. Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1886 Papers | Relating to the | Foreign Relations | of | The United States, | Transmitted to Congress, | With the Annual Message of the President, | December 8, 1885, | Preceded by a | List of Papers, with an Analysis of their Contents, and | followed by an Alphabetical Index of Subjects. | [device] | Wash- ington : | Government Printing Office. | 1 886. 8vo. Collation: Title, Message, and List, pp. [i]-c; text and Index, pp. [i]-9SO. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Foreign | Relations | of the | United | States | 1885". This volume contains, pp. 444-449, six letters from Lowell, two being to Mr. Frelinghuysen, one to his successor, Mr. Bayard, and three to Earl Granville. In June, 1885, Lowell returned to America. 1886 Fifth I Annual Report | of the | Dante Society. | May 18, 1886. I Appendix I. | Dante: James Russell Lowell. | Appendix II. | Dante, and the Lancelot Romance: | Paget Toynbee. | Cambridge : | John Wilson and Son. I University Press. | 1886. 8vo. Collation: Title, List of Officers, and text, pp. [ 1 ]-74. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9 by 6 inches. Issued in paper cover, p. [1] printed from the types of the title-page. Other cover-pages blank. This pamphlet contains : "Dante. | By James Russell Lowell. | Re- printed by consent of the Publishers from Appleton's | Cyclopaedia, 1859." Pp. 15-38. This is an entirely different article from the essay "Dante" in the Sec- ond Series of "Among my Books." Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1886 Democracy | and other Addresses | By | James Russell Lowell | [device] | Boston and New York | Hough- ton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | 1887 i2mo. Collation: Blank, p. [i] ; list of Lowell's writings, p. [2] ; title, copyright (dated 1886) and imprint, Dedication, and Con- tents, pp. [i]-vi; half-title and text, pp. [i]-24S. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Publishers' list bound in at end, pp. 1-14. Issued in blue cloth, with paper label, "Democracy | and | Other Addresses | Lowell". Untrimmed copies in this form were issued as the first edition. Later bindings are different. This volume contains nine addresses, of which five had already ap- peared in print elsewhere, as indicated: "Democracy." Delivered in Birmingham, October 6, 1884. First printed as "On Democracy," London, 1884. "Garfield." Delivered in London, September 24, 1881. First printed in the "Death of President Garfield," London, 1881. "Stanley." Delivered in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey, December 13, 1881. "Fielding." Delivered at Taunton, England, September 4, 1883. "Coleridge." Delivered in Westminster Abbey, May 7, 1885. "Books and Libraries." Delivered at Chelsea, Mass., December 22, 1885. Printed in the "Proceedings at the Dedication of the New Library Building," 1886. "Wordsworth." Delivered before the Wordsworth Society, Edinburgh, May 10, 1884. Printed in the "Transactions," No. VI, of the Society. "Don Quixote." Read at the Workingmen's College in London, prob- ably in 1885. "Harvard University." Delivered at Cambridge, November 8, 1886. First printed in the Atlantic Monthly for December, 1886, and the next year in the Harvard Commemoration volumes. Lowell was asked to assist in procuring a copy of a painting of Bishop Butler for presentation to Trinity College, Hartford; and a letter from him, dated "Legation of the United States, London, May 6, 1885," in reference to the matter, is printed on p. 6 of the pamphlet, "Speeches at the Presentation of the Portrait of Bishop Butler to Trinity College, on Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Wednesday, June 23d, being the day before Commencement, 1886," Hart- ford, Conn., 1886. The "Exercises of the Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative of the Incor- poration of the City of Lowell," Lowell, 1886, contains, on p. 83, a letter from J. R. Lowell, dated January 25, 1886, in which he expresses his regret at his inability to attend the celebration. The "Proceedings of the Dedication of the Fountain on Eaton Square, in Memory of Theodore Lyman, Jr.," Boston, 1886, contains Lowell's poem "The Fountain," set to music. The poem itself was first published in "Poems," 1844. The same volume contains, on p. 54, a three-line letter from Lowell, dated "Southborough, Mass., Oct. 23, 1885." 1887 1636. Harvard University. 1886. | [rule] | A Record of the Commemoration, | November Fifth to Eighth, 1886, | on the | Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniver- sary | of the | Founding of Harvard College. | [device] | Cambridge, N. E.: | John Wilson and Son. | University Press. | 1887. Large 8vo. Collation: Half-title, title, Records, text, half- title, and Registration, pp. [i]-379- Facsimiles facing title and p. ii. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 10 by 6% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Harvard College | 250th Anni- versary I 1886". This volume contains two pieces by Lowell : (1) "Oration. | By James Russell Lowell." Pp. 194-236. (2) "Speech of James Russell Lowell." Pp. 300-302. The first of these was included in the volume "Democracy and other Addresses," published late in 1886. The second, shorter speech apparently has not been reprinted. 1887 Richard The Third | and | The Primrose Criticism | [quotation, 3 lines]. | Chicago | A. C. McClurg and Company | 1887 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL x i6mo. Collation: half-title, title, copyright (dated 1887), quota- tion from Lowell's address, and Contents, pp. [1-7]; half-title and text, pp. [9] -164. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% by 4% inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Richard | The | Third. | A. C. McClurg I & Co." On p. [5] is an extract, fourteen lines, from Lowell's address on Shakespeare's "Richard III" before the Union League Club in Chicago, signed "James Russell Lowell, | Chicago, Feb. 22, 1887." This address had been delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution in 1883, but was not collected until 1891, when it was included in the volume "Latest Literary Essays and Addresses." The extract from the Chicago address differs slightly from the corresponding passage in the lecture as collected. The book itself was written by the Rev. Frank M. Bristol. 1887 The West Church, Boston | [rule] | Commemorative Services | on the | fiftieth Anniversary of its present | Ministry | and the | One hundred and fiftieth of its | foundation | On Tuesday, March 1, 1887 | With three sermons by its Pastor | With Illustrations | Boston | Damrell and Upham | 1887 8vo. Collation: Half-title, title, imprint, Contents, Illustrations, Prefatory Note, half-title, pp. [1-11] ; text, pp. [i3]-i24. Plates, separately printed, facing title and pp. 16, 18, 20, 56, 84. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9% by 6% inches. Issued in cloth, lettered "Commemorative | Services | at | West Church | Boston | 1737-1887 |. This volume contains: "Address of James Russell Lowell, | D.C.L., LL.D." Pp. 58-64. This seems never to have been collected. 1887 Proceedings | of the | Massachusetts Historical Society, I from I October, 1886, to January, 1887 | (Inclu- sive) . C1123 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 8vo. Collation : No title-page, above being p. [ i ] of cover ; text, pp. 55-205. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9% by 6% 6 inches. Issued in gray paper cover. P. [ 1 ] as above ; pp. [2-4] blank. On pp. 149-152 is Mr. Lowell's tribute to Charles Francis Adams, beginning with: "The Hon. James Russell Lowell followed with these | words:— | 'The leading traits of our late associate's character were so emphatic,'" etc. 1888 Reform Club Series. — I | [rule] | The Independent in Politics I An Address delivered before the Reform Club I of New York, April 13, 1888 | By | James Russell Lowell | [rule] | New York | The Reform Club I 12 East 33d Street | 1888 8vo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1888) and imprint, and text, pp. [i]-2y. Size of leaf, small paper, trimmed, 8 by 5% inches ; large paper, untrimmed, 9% by 7% inches. Issued in blue paper cover, p. [1] reading "Reform Club Series. — I | [rule] | The Independent in Politics | James Russell Lowell I [rule] | The Reform Club, New York". The large-paper issue, 300 copies, has a notice on p. 2: "Large Paper Edition | 300 Copies. No ". This address was delivered April 13, 1888, and was printed in the New York Evening Post for April 17, 1888; also in the Civil Service Reformer, published in Baltimore, in the number for May, 1888. It was printed the same year by G. P. Putnam's Sons, as No. XL VIII of their "Questions of the Day" series ; and was collected in the volume "Political Essays," pub- lished in July, 1888. 1888 Political Essays | By | James Russell Lowell | [device] I Boston and New York | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | 1 888 i2mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1888) and imprint, Prefatory Note, and Contents, pp. [i-v] ; text, pp. [1 3-326. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% by 5 inches. CH3:] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Issued in blue cloth with paper label, "Political Essays [ Lowell j First Edition". Only seventy-five copies were bound up, entirely untrimmed, and with label reading, "First Edition," as described above. This volume contains thirteen pieces, all but one of which had pre- viously appeared in either the Atlantic Monthly or the North American Review, and which had not before been collected. The contents of the volume, and the first appearance of the several essays, are as follows : "The American Tract Society." Atlantic Monthly, July, 1858. "The Election in November." Atlantic Monthly, October, i860. "E Pluribus Unum." Atlantic Monthly, February, 1861. "The Pickens and Stealin's Rebellion." Atlantic Monthly, June, 1861. "General McClellan's Report." North American Review, April, 1864. "The Rebellion, its Causes and Consequences." North American Re- view, July, 1864. "McClellan or Lincoln?" North American Review, October, 1864. "Abraham Lincoln." As "The President's Policy." North American Review, January, 1864. Also printed as a pamphlet, 1864. "Reconstruction." North American Review, April, 1865. "Scotch the Snake, or Kill it?" North American Review, July, 1865. "The President on the Stump." North American Review, April, 1866. "The Seward-Johnson Reaction." North American Review, October, 1866. "The Place of the Independent in Politics." New York Evening Post, April 17, 1888. Also separately as a pamphlet. 1888 Heartsease and Rue | By ] James Russell Lowell | [pub- lishers' device] | Boston and New York | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cam- bridge I 1888 i2mo. Collation: Blank, p. [1] ; list of Lowell's writings, p. [2] ; title, copyright (dated 1888) and imprint, quotation (4 lines), Contents, and half-title, pp. [i-ix] ; text, pp. [i]-2i8; engraved portrait facing title. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% 6 by 4% inches. Issued in blue cloth, with paper label, "Heartsease | and | Rue I Lowell". Also in gray boards, white cloth back, lettered in gilt "Heartsease | and Rue I J. R. Lowell I Houghton I Mifflin & Co." Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL The concluding line on p. 63, "That women in their self-surrender know?" was omitted in a few copies. A copy exists with this line in Lowell's autograph. This was the last collection of verse published during the author's life. Some of the poems included had been printed in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, and the Nation, but a number of pieces are here printed for the first' time. Two hundred and fifty copies were issued in blue cloth with paper label. 1888 The English Poets: | Lessing, Rousseau: | Essays by James Russell | Lowell, with "An Apology I For a Preface." | London | Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane | Toronto: W. J. Gage and Co. | 1888 i6mo. Collation: Half-title, title, Contents, Apology, pp. [i]-x; text, pp. [n]-337- Publishers' list bound in at end, pp. [1-6]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6% by 4% inches. Issued in red cloth, back lettered in gilt "Essays on the | Eng- lish Poets I J. R. Lowell | [in black] Camelot | Series | Walter Scott". The essays had been printed long before, but the "Apology for a Preface," pp. vii-x, was written especially for this edition. It is dated at end, "October 13th, 1888." 1888 The History | of the | World's Progress. | A General History of the Earth's Construction, and | of the Ad- vancement of Mankind. | With an Introduction by Hon. James Russell Lowell. | Edited by | Charles E. Beale, A.M., LL.B. | Vol. I [II] | World's Library Association: | 592 Washington St., Boston, Mass. | [1888] 2 vols., large 8vo. Collation, Vol. I: Title, p. [i] ; copyright (dated 1886), p. [ii] ; Introduction by Lowell, pp. [i]-x; List of Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Illustrations, pp. [iii]-vii; text, pp. [1J-600. Vol. II: Title, p. [i] ; text, pp. 601-1088; Contents, pp. 1089-1108. Size of leaf, trimmed, 11% by 8% inches. Issued in stamped cloth, marbled edges, back lettered "History I of the I World's | Progress. | Vol. I | Illustrated." Probably issued also in leather binding. This is the second edition of the book, not published until 1888. The first edition of 1886 did not contain Lowell's Introduction, which was printed later and interpolated between pp. [ii] and [Hi]. Lowell's Intro- duction was collected in "Latest Literary Essays," 1891. 1888 Proceedings | at the | Meeting for the Formation | of | The International Copyright | Association, | Parker House, December 27, 1887. | [ornament] | Boston: | Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 39 Arch Street. | 1888. 8vo. Collation: Title, Object of Corporation, and text, pp. [1]- 23. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 6 inches. Issued stitched, without cover. Remarks by Lowell, prefaced by "Mr. Lowell took the chair and said :", occupy pp. 11, 12. 1888 What American Authors Think | About International Copyright. | [ornament] | New-York | American Copyright League | 1888. 8vo. Collation : Title, facsimile of a letter from Longfellow, and text, pp. [1-16]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9% 6 by d 1 ^ inches. Issued stitched, without cover. On p. [3] is a facsimile of Lowell's verses on copyright (four lines), signed "J. R. Lowell" and dated "20th Nov: 1885." This same facsimile appears in several later publications of the American Copyright League. c»6;i Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL On pp. 10 and n is an extract from a "Statement before the Senate Committee on Patents, Friday, January 29, 1886," thirty-seven lines, signed "James Russell Lowell"; and filling pp. 14 and 15 is "An Open Letter to Readers of Books. | Address of the American Copyright League, January, 1888.", signed "James Russell Lowell, President. | E. C. Stedman, Vice President," and five other names, members of the Executive Committee. 1888 Report of the Proceedings | at the dinner | given by | the Society of Authors | To | American Men and Wo- men of Letters | at the Criterion Restaurant, | on Wednesday, July 25, 1888. | [double rule] | London: | Society of Authors, | 4, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W. C. | 1888. 8vo. Collation: No title-page, above being on p. [i] of cover. Pp. [1-2] blank; text, pp. 3-47; imprint, "Billing and Sons, Print- ers, Guildford.", at bottom of p. 47. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9% by 6% inches. Issued in gray paper cover, p. [1] as above; p. [2] blank; p. [3] List of Officers; p. 4 blank. Lowell's address, on pp. 18-25, is headed: "Mr. J. Russell Lowell, who was received with loud applause, said :" etc "Arbor Day, Edited and Compiled by Robert W. Furnas," published in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1888, contains, on pp. 102-104, a letter from Lowell, dated "Deerfoot Farm, Southborough, Mass., March 25, 1888." 1889 Address | By | James Russell Lowell, D.C.L., LL.D. | Before the | Modern Language Association of Amer- ica I 1889 I [rule] | Extracted from the | Publications of the Modern Language Association, | Vol. V, No. 1 . 8vo. Collation : No title-page, above being on p. 1 of cover ; text, pp. [5]-22, with heading on p. [5] : "Address.* | By James Rus- C"73 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL sell Lowell, D.C.L., LL.D., | Cambridge, Mass." At the bottom of p. [5] is: "*Copyright, 1890, by James Russell Lowell." Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9 by 6% inches. Issued in paper cover, p. [1] as above. Other cover-pages blank. The cover-title, as above, says that the address was "Extracted from the Publications of the Modern Language Association, Vol. V, No. 1," and it is probable that that volume was first published, but this form is certainly the more desirable. The other pamphlet has the following title- page: "Vol. V, No. 1. I Publications | of the | Modern Language Association I of America | January-March | [rule] | Baltimore: | 1890." It has thirty- two pages of text, Lowell's address occupying pp. 5-22. 1889 Library of Tribune Extras. | Vol. I. May, 1889. No. 5. | The Washington Centenary | Celebrated in New- York I April 29, 30-May 1, 1889. | [vignette] | President Harrison entering the City Hall— View from the Tribune Building. | [rule] | $2 a year. Sin- gle Copies, 25 cents. | [rule] | The Tribune Associa- tion, I New- York. 8vo. Collation: No title-page, above being p. [1] of cover; Illus- trations, pp. [i-viii] ; text, pp. [i]-i20. Size of leaf, trimmed, 10 by 6% inches. Issued in paper cover, p. [1] as above; pp. [2, 3] blank; p. [4] advertisements. On pp. 71, 72, are some extracts from Lowell's address, beginning: "Remarks by Mr. Lowell. | Here are some of the points made by James | Russell Lowell in his address." 1889 The I Complete Angler, | or the | Contemplative Man's Recreation, | of | Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. | Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL With an Introduction | By James Russell Lowell. | Vol. I. [Vol. II.] | [vignette] | Boston: | Little, Brown, and Company. | 1889. 2 vols., 8vo. Collation: Vol. I: Half-title, title, number of copies printed, copyright (dated 1889) and imprint, Contents, List of Embellishments, Introduction, half-title, Dedication, and To all Readers, pp. [i]-lxxvi; text, pp. 1-208. Plates, separately printed, facing title and pp. 1, 66, 149, 159, 176, 202, 206. Vol. II : Half-title, title, number of copies printed, copyright and im- print, and Contents, pp. [i]— vi ; text, half-title, and Index, pp. 208-456. Plates, separately printed, facing title and pp. 263, 296, 305, 339, 350, and 394. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 8 by 5% inches. Issued in green cloth, gilt ornaments, back lettered "The | Complete | Angler | Walton & Cotton | Vol. I. [Vol. II.] | Lit- tle, Brown & Co." One hundred and fifty copies were printed on large paper. These were bound in boards. Lowell's Introduction, written especially for this edition, fills pp. [xv]- lxv. It was reprinted in "Latest Literary Essays and Addresses," 1892. 1889 Life of I Harriet Beecher Stowe | Compiled from | Her Letters and Journals | By her Son | Charles Edward Stowe I [device] | Boston and New York | Hough- ton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | 1890 8vo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1889), Introductory Statement, Contents, and List of Illustrations, pp. [i]-xii; text and Index, pp. [i]-530; List of Works, pp. [531-536]. Fac- simile manuscript preface, two leaves, following title ; other illus- trations as given in list on pp. [xi]-xii. Size of leaf, trimmed, 8% by 5% inches. Issued in blue cloth, gilt top, back lettered "Life of | Harriet Di93 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Beecher | Stowe | Charles E. Stowe | Illustrated | Houghton | Mifflin and Co." Lowell's appreciation of "The Minister's Wooing" is on pp. 327-332, and a long letter from him, dated "Cambridge, February 4, 1859," is on pp. 333-336. 1890 Areopagitica | A Speech of Mr. John Milton | for | The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, | To the Parliament of England | With an Introduction by | James Russell Lowell I [Grolier Club device] | New- York | The Grolier Club | MDCCCXC i6mo. Collation : Number of copies printed, half-title, title, half- title, copyright (dated 1890), Introduction, and title of first edi- tion, pp. [i]-lx; text, pp. [i]-i89. Etched portrait, separately printed, facing title. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 6% 6 by 4% 6 inches. Issued in blue boards, with paper label, "Areopagitica | John Milton". The Introduction by Lowell fills pp. [xi]-lvii. It was reprinted in the volume "Latest Literary Essays and Addresses," 1892. 1890 The Soldier's Field | Henry Lee Higginson | Major, First Massachusetts Cavalry | Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. V. | 8vo. Collation : Title, p. [i] ; Military Order of the Loyal Legion, etc., pp. [iii-vi] ; half-title, p. 1 ; text, pp. [3]-i2. Size of leaf, trimmed, 9% by 5% inches. Issued in paper cover, p. [1] reading, "The Soldier's Field | Henry Lee Higginson". Lowell's inscription for a stone for the field is on p. 9 : "To the I Happy Memory | of | James Savage, Jr., | Charles Russell Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL Lowell, | Edward Barry Dalton, | Stephen George Perkins, | James Jack- son Lowell, | Robert Gould Shaw, | Friends, Comrades, Kinsmen, who died for their | Country, | This Field is Dedicated." 1890 My Brook. | Words | By | James Russell Lowell | Draw- ings | By | Wilson de Meza | Supplement to the New York Ledger | December 13th 1890 Folio. Collation: 2 leaves, the above title on p. [19] ; the poem and illustrations on pp. 20 and 21 ; and on p. [22], within a scroll, "Souvenir | The | New York | Ledger | Supplement | Dec 13 1890." This supplement, issued separately and not stitched in, is described, although it is paged continuously with the weekly paper which it accom- panied. A poem by Whittier, "The Captain's Well," was issued as a similar supplement to the Ledger of an earlier date. Some copies of that supplement were bound in stamped paper boards, but this poem of Lowell's was apparently never issued in covers. "My Brook" is not included in the collected editions of Lowell's poems, but it is reprinted in Edward Everett Hale's "James Russell Lowell and his Friends," 1899. The Riverside Edition of "The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry," published in 1890, contains some material collected for the first time. Though edited by Lowell himself, he made few if any revisions, and the text was mainly reprinted from earlier volumes. Vols. I to VI are Prose, and Vols. VII to X, Poetry. Vol. I contains a "Prefatory Note to the Essays," dated at end "25th April, 1890." Vol. VI, "Literary and Political Addresses," contains two essays here first collected: "Tariff Reform. Address at a Meeting of the Tariff Reform League, Boston, December 29, 1887." " 'Our Literature.' Response to a Toast at the Banquet in New York, April 30, 1889." Selections from this appeared in the "Tribune Extra," 1889. Vol. VII contains a "Prefatory Note to the Poems," dated "9th May, 1890," and a rhymed "Letter from Boston," dated December, 1846, filling pp. 305-312. This piece had been printed in the Anti-Slavery Standard in 1848 and again in the Atlantic Monthly in 1884, but is here first collected. Vol. IX contains "Fragments of an Unfinished Poem," filling pp. 126- 136. This was reprinted from Putnam's Monthly for April, 1853. C12O Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL "The Story of The Memorial Fountain to Shakespeare at Stratford-upon- Avon", Cambridge, The Riverside Press, 1890, contains, on pp. 35-38, a letter from Lowell, beginning, "Dear Sir Arthur Hodgson", and signed "J. R. Lowell" but undated. The fountain was the gift of George W. Childs of Philadelphia. In "The Art of Authorship, Literary Reminiscences, Methods of Work," etc., edited by George Bainton, is an extract from a letter by Lowell, but without date or signature. It is on pp. 29, 30. An eight-page pamphlet, made up of testimonials and notices of Melville D. Landon's "Wise, Witty, Eloquent Kings of the Platform and Pulpit," published in Chicago in 1890, contains, on p. 4, a letter from Lowell, without date but with signature in facsimile. 1891 Latest Literary Essays | And Addresses | of | James Russell Lowell | [device] | Cambridge | Printed at the Riverside Press | 1891. 8vo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1891) and limit notice, Note, and Contents, pp. [i-vii] ; text, pp. [i]-i84. Portrait facing title. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 8% by 5% inches. Issued in gray boards, white cloth back, with paper label, "Lowell's I Writings | Latest | Literary Essays | And Addresses | Large Paper". The above is a description of the large-paper edition, dated 1891. The regular edition, dated 1892, has list of Lowell's works preceding title in- stead of half-title, and has imprint : "Boston and New York | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | 1892." It was issued in cloth, lettered "Lowell's | Prose | Works | Latest [ Literary | Essays | Houghton | Mifflin & Co". Lowell died on August 12, 1891. This volume was made up by his lifelong friend and literary executor, Charles Eliot Norton. There is an introductory Note by him dated "Cambridge, Massachusetts, 16 November, 1891." The seven essays in the volume had all appeared in print before; those on Walton, Milton's "Areopagitica," and "The Progress of the World," having first appeared as introductions to other volumes, as already described. "Portraits and Autographs: An Album for the People," London, 1891, contains a facsimile of a letter by Lowell, dated "Elmwood, Cambridge, Mass. 28th Jan : 1890." Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1892 The | Old English Dramatists | By | James Russell Lowell | [Publishers' device] | Cambridge Printed at the Riverside Press | 1892 8vo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1892), limit notice, Note, and Contents, pp. [i-vii] ; text, pp. [i]-i32. Por- trait facing title. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 8% by 6 inches. Issued in gray boards, cloth back, with paper label, "Lowell's I Writings | Old English | Dramatists | Large Paper." The regular issue has list of Lowell's works, verso of leaf preceding title, instead of half-title, and has imprint "Boston and New York I Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | 1892." It was issued in cloth, some copies being lettered "Lowell's ] Prose I Works | Old English | Dramatists | Houghton | Mifflin & Co." The six lectures which make up this volume appeared in Harper's Magazine, June to November, 1892. 1892 American | Ideas | For | English Readers | By James Russell Lowell | With Introduction by | Henry Stone I Published by | J. G. Cupples Co, | 250 Boylston St. I Boston i2mo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1892), Con- tents, and Introduction, pp. [i-xv] ; text, pp. [i]~94- Portrait facing title. Publishers' lists bound in at end, pp. [1-8]. Size of leaf, trimmed, 6 1S M. 6 by 3 1 % 6 inches. Issued in cloth, front cover lettered "American Ideas | For | English Readers | Lowell." This volume contains eleven addresses delivered in England from November 6, 1880, to December 23, 1888. It was made up from newspaper reports and was unauthorized. In "Abraham Coles : Biographical Sketch . . . Edited by his Son Jonathan Ackerman Coles," New York, 1892, there is, on p. [276], a short comment, nine lines, by Lowell. [123] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1893 Conversations | On Some of | The Old Poets. | By | James Russell Lowell. | With an Introduction | By j Robert Ellis Thompson, S.T.D. | [rule] | [quotation, 4 lines] | [rule] | Third Edition Enlarged. | [rule] | Philadelphia: | David McKay, Publisher, | 23 South Ninth Street. | 1893. i2mo. Collation : Quotation, 8 lines, p. [2] ; title, copyright (dated 1893), Dedication, quotation, 7 lines, Editor's Introduc- tion, and To the Reader, pp. [i]-xiv; text, pp. 1-294. 1 leaf of publisher's advertisement at end. Size of leaf, trimmed, 7% by 5 inches. Issued in cloth, gilt top, back lettered "The | Old Poets | Lowell I American Classic | Series". This edition contains two essays : "The Plays of Thomas Middleton," pp. 243-270, and "Song-Writing," pp. 271-294, not in the Second Edition of 1846. These two articles had appeared in the Pioneer in 1843, the first in No. I, the second in No. II of that short-lived periodical. 1893 Letters of | James Russell Lowell | Edited by | Charles Eliot Norton | Volume I. [Volume II.] | [Publishers' device] | New York | Harper & Brothers Publishers I 1894 2 vols., 8vo. Collation: Vol. I: Title, copyright (dated 1893), Editorial Note, and Contents, pp. [i]-viii; text, pp. 1-418. Por- trait facing title. Vol. II: Title, copyright, and Contents, pp. [i]- v ; text and Index, pp. 1-464. Portrait facing title. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 8% by 5% inches. Issued in blue buckram, back lettered "Letters of | James Russell I Lowell | Charles Eliot Norton | I. [II.] | Harper & Brothers". C124H Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL An extract from a letter to Mrs. Francis G. Shaw, beginning "My dear Sarah:", printed on pp. 195, 196 of Vol. I, was reprinted privately as a remembrance card, probably late in 1893, after the publication of these volumes. This extract was printed in black-letter type, with the initial letter in red, upon heavy cardboard, with beveled edges. The card mea- sures 9?ie by 7% inches. 1894 The Harvard Crimson | Supplement, containing unpub- lished fragments, furnished by Charles Eliot | Nor- ton, from the College Lectures of | James Russell Lowell. I Copyrighted by E. H. Warren | for the Harvard Crimson | Cambridge, Mass. Friday, March 23, 1894. 1 Price 5 Cents. Large 8vo. Six supplements were issued. The above is the heading of p. [1] of the first. Others are dated March 30, April 13, 20, and 27, and May 4, 1894. Each consists of 4 pp. with text in three columns. Portions of pp. [3, 4] of each issue are occupied by publisher's lists. The following articles by Lowell, mainly selections from his lectures, are included : No. I. No. V. "The Study of Literature." "The Poetic and the Actual." "The Study of Modern Lan- "Poetry in Homely Lines." guages." "The Practical and the Ideal." No. II. "Style." "Translation." "Piers Ploughman." "Originality and Tradition in Lit- "Montaigne." erature." "A Criticism of Wordsworth." "Choice in Reading." "Books and Libraries." No. VI. No. III. "The Humorous and the Comic.'' "The Search for Truth." "First Need of American Cul- Close of Lecture at Cornell Uni- ture." versity. Harvard Anniversary. This is No. IV. a P art °f Lowell's address on "Elements of the English Lan- the 250th anniversary of Har- guage." vard. Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1895 Last Poems | of | James Russell Lowell | [Publishers' device] | Boston and New York | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | M DCCC xcv i2mo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1895) and imprint, Note, Contents, and text, pp. [i]-47, printed on recto only. Por- trait facing title. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% by 5 inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "Last | Poems | James | Russell | Lowell I Houghton | Mifflin & Co". The Explanatory Note, signed "C. E. N[orton]," is dated "September, i89S" 1895 The I Poems of John Donne | From the text of the edi- tion of 1633 I Revised By | James Russell Lowell | With the various readings | of the other editions of the Seventeenth Century, and | With a Preface, an Introduction, and Notes by | Charles Eliot Norton | Volume I [Volume II] | [Grolier Club device] | New- York I The Grolier Club | 1895 2 vols., i6mo. Collation: Vol. I: Number of copies printed, half-title, title, copyright (dated 1895), Preface, Contents, Intro- duction, and Note, pp. [i-xxxix] ; half-title, text, half-title, notes, and Corrigenda, pp. 1-O55] ; imprint, p. [256]. Portrait facing title, separately printed. Vol. II: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1895), Contents, and note, pp. [iii]-xi; half-title, text, half-title, notes, and Corrigenda, pp. 1-287; imprint, p. [288]. Portrait facing title. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 6% by 4% inches. Issued in gray cloth, back lettered "Poems | of | John | Donne | [device] | Volume I." Ci26] Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL 1896 The Power of | Sound | A Rhymed | Lecture by I James Russell Lowell | Privately | Printed | New York | MDCCCXCVI 8vo. Collation: Blank, pp. [i-ii] ; half-title, copyright (dated 1896), half-title, Introductory Note, and half-title, pp. [iii-xi] ; text and notes, pp. 1-35; colophon, p. [36]. Size of leaf, un- trimmed, 8 by 5% inches. Issued in boards, cloth back and corners, back lettered "The | Power I of I Sound | Lowell | New York | 1896". This edition was printed from a unique copy preserved in the form of a galley-proof, printed probably in 1857 or shortly thereafter, and used by Lowell in the delivery of the lecture. Lowell introduced a few passages from it into "Mason and Slidell" in 1862; but though delivered several times as a lecture, the poem was never published by him. The Introduc- tory Note is by Charles Eliot Norton. This edition consisted of twenty- five copies on Japan paper and fifty on hand-made paper, and was printed at the expense of the late Edwin B. Holden. 1897 Lectures | on j English Poets | By | James Russell Lowell I "—Call up him who left half-told | The story of Cambuscan Bold." | [ornament] | Cleveland | The Rowfant Club | m dccc xcvil 8vo. Collation : Number of copies printed, title, copyright (dated 1897), Contents, and Introduction, pp. [i]-xvi; half-title and text, pp. [i]-2io; imprint, p. 211. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 8% by 5 1 %e inches. Issued in half-binding, cloth sides, leather back, lettered "Lec- tures I on I English | Poets | Lowell | The | Rowfant | Club". These lectures were delivered in Boston before the Lowell Institute in January and February, 1855. They are here reprinted from reports printed at the time in the Boston Daily Advertiser. The Introduction by D273 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL S. A. J [ones] is dated "Ann Arbor, November 10th, 1896." 224 copies were printed. W. J. Stillman was a friend of Lowell, and in his "The Old Rome and the New," London, 1897, there is a chapter, "A Few of Lowell's Letters." Eleven letters are printed but they had been for the most part included in "Letters," 1894. An extract from a letter of May 14, 1857, printed on pp. 155-156, and a portion of a letter of March 7, 1882, on p. 161, only, seem to be here first printed. Lowell's poem "The Singing Leaves," which had been printed in "Under the Willows" in 1868, was set to music by Grace Mayhew and published in Boston by the H. B. Stevens Company in 1897. The composer took some slight liberties with Lowell's text. In the "Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. XI, 1897," Boston, 1897, there is printed on pp. 208, 209, "An extract from a despatch dated at Madrid, February 6, 1878, and sent to the State Department in Washington by the Honorable James Russell Lowell," twenty-five lines. In "John Sullivan Dwight, Brook-Farmer, Editor, and Critic of Music,'' by George Willis Cooke, Boston, 1898, are printed two letters from Lowell. One of these, relating to contributions to the Pioneer, is on p. 70; the other, telling of an interview with Asa Gray, on pp. 105-107. In the "Sources of the History of Oregon," edited by F. G. Young, Secre- tary of the Oregon Historical Society, issued in parts beginning in 1897, Part 3 of Vol. I, printed at Eugene, Oregon, in 1899, contains on p. [iii] an extract from a letter written by Lowell, addressed "Dear Miss H. . . ." and dated "Elmwood, Cambridge, Mass., 24th April, 1890."^ sixteen lines, referring to Lowell's recollections of Captain Wyeth. 1899 James Russell Lowell | and His Friends | By | Edward Everett Hale | With Portraits, Facsimiles, and other I Illustrations | [Publishers' device] | Boston and New York | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | 1899 8vo. Collation: Title, copyright (dated 1898 and 1899), Con- tents, and Illustrations, pp. [i]-viii; text and Index, pp. [i]~303; imprint, p. 304. Illustrations, separately printed, facing title and Ci283 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL pp. 4, 8, 12, 18, 36, 50, 52, 74, 78, 84, 86, 92, 96, 112, 114, 134, 138, 150, 154, 158, 162, 164, 168, 178, 182, 184, 186, 188, 196, 198, 202, 210, 240, 258, 266, 268, 270, 274, 284. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 8 1 % 6 by 5 1 %e inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "James | Russell | Lowell | and | His Friends | Edward | Everett | Hale | Houghton | Mifflin & Co." Facing p. 50 is a reproduction of the broadside, "To the Class of '38," and between pp. 284 and 285 is a reproduction of the first two stanzas and the last stanza of "My Brook." The latter poem is printed entire on pp. 285, 286. Other uncollected verses first printed here are found on pp. 34, 38, and 39. 1899 Specimens | of | Printing | Types j in use at the | Marion Press I Jamaica, Queensborough | New-York | [rule] I Together with a List of | the Publications of | the Marion Press | [device] | September | 1899 8vo. Collation: Title, woodcut, Prefatory Note, quotation, and specimens, pp. [1-18] ; Publications of the Marion Press, p. [19] ; blank, p. [20]. Issued stitched, without cover. The title is within an orna- mental frame, which is printed in blue ink. Size of leaf, un- trimmed, gY 8 by 6% inches. On p. [9] there are printed a letter from J. R. Lowell, dated "10, Lowndes Square, S.W., March 18, 1881," and a little poem, threft stanzas of five lines each, with title "Cuiviscunque." and signed "Quivis," which had been sent with the letter. Three hundred copies of these "Specimens" were printed. "Impressions of Spain James Russell Lowell Compiled by Joseph B. Gil- der," Boston, 1899, is made up of selections from Lowell's letters to the Department of State, printed in "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States," 1878-79. 1901 James Russell Lowell | A Biography | By | Horace Elisha Scudder | In Two Volumes | Volume I [Vol- C1293 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL ume II] I [Publishers' device] | Cambridge | Printed at the Riverside Press | mcmi 2 vols., 8vo. Collation: Vol. I: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1901), limit notice, Dedication, Preface, and List of Illustra- tions, pp. [i-xiii] ; text, pp. [i]-455 5 imprint on p. 456. Por- traits and plates facing title and pp. 10, 116, 306, 360, and 384. Vol. II : Half-title, title, copyright and limit notice, Contents, and List of Illustrations, pp. [i-vii] ; text, Appendix, and Index, pp. 1-482; imprint on p. 483. Portrait facing title; plates facing pp. 64, 120, 186, 318, 394. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 8 1 % 6 by 5 1 %6 inches. Issued in gray boards, cloth back, with paper label, "James | Russell I Lowell | A Biography | I [II] | H. E. Scudder | Large Paper". The regular edition, 2 vols., i2mo, was issued in cloth, back lettered "James | Russell | Lowell | A Biography | I [II] | Horace E. | Scudder | Houghton I Mifflin & Co." The imprint on title is "Boston and New York I Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press. Cambridge [ 1901". Besides numerous extracts from letters, these volumes contain verses here first printed on pp. 38, 46, 54, 68, 73, 75, 77, and 435 of Vol. I, and pp. 47, 75, 116, 215, and 343 of Vol. II. 1902 Early Prose Writings | of | James Russell Lowell | With a Prefatory Note by Dr. Hale, of | Boston, and an Introduction by | Walter Littlefield | [vignette] | Published by John Lane | The Bodley Head | London & New York | i2mo. Collation: Blank, pp. [i-iii] ; portrait, title, copyright (dated 1902) and imprint, Contents, Prefatory Note, and Intro- duction, pp. [iv]-xxxviii; half-title and text, pp. [i]-248. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% by 5% inches. Issued in boards, cloth back, with paper label, "Lowell's | Early | Prose | Writings". Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL The pieces included in this volume are for the most part reprinted from the Boston Miscellany, 1842. One, "Song-writing," appeared first in the Pioneer, February, 1843, and had already been printed in the 1873 unauthorized edition of "Conversations on Some of the Old Poets." The book was printed in New York, and the first edition was issued in September, 1902. 1902 The Anti-Slavery | Papers of | James Russell Lowell | I [II] I [Publishers' device] | Boston and New York I Houghton Mifflin and Company | MDCCCCH 2 vols., 8vo. Collation: Vol. I: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1902), Introduction, and Contents, pp. [i]-xiii; half-title and text, pp. [i]-223. Vol. II: Half-title, title, copyright, and Contents, pp. [i]-vii; half-title and text, pp. [i]-2c>3; imprint and number, p. 204. 'Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9% by 5% inches. Issued in boards, with paper label, "Anti- | Slavery | Papers | of I James | Russell | Lowell | I [II]". The papers included in these volumes originally appeared in the Penn- sylvania Freeman or the National Anti-Slavery Standard, though they are for the most part printed from the original manuscripts. Five hun- dred copies were printed. The volumes were edited by William Belmont Parker. "The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell," Elmwood edition, in sixteen volumes, Boston, 1904, is of interest because of the new letters which appear in Vols. XIV, XV, and XVI. The original two-volume edition of "Letters," published in 1894, was re-edited by Professor Norton, and a considerable number of new letters added, forming three volumes. These three volumes were not published separately from the set. A special edition, called the "Autograph Edition," was printed from the same plates. 1905 James Russell Lowell | His Life and Work I By | Fer- ris Greenslet | With Illustrations | [device] | Boston and New York | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | 1905 Digitized by Microsoft® FIRST EDITIONS OF LOWELL i2mo. Collation: Half-title, title, copyright (dated 1905), Preface, Contents, and List of Illustrations, pp. [i-xi] ; text, and Index, pp. [i]~309; imprint, p. [310]. Frontispiece portrait and illustrations, separately printed, facing pp. 12, 68, 180, 236 and 272. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 7% by 5 inches. Issued in cloth, back lettered "James | Russell | Lowell j Fer- ris I Greenslet | Houghton | Mifflin & Co." This admirable biography includes several letters here first printed and, on pp. 116-121, an extract from an unpublished journal by Lowell. In Thomas Wentworth's Higginson's "Part of a Man's Life," Boston, 1905, there is separately printed, and facing p. 300, a facsimile of a letter from Lowell to Higginson, dated "Southborough 7th Dec." 1906 Four Poems | The Ballad of the Stranger | King Retro. The Royal Pedi- | gree. and | A Dream I had. By | James Russell Lowell | (Now first collected) | Hing- ham I Printed for private distribution | The Village Press I 1906 8vo. Collation: Title, Contents, and "Note," pp. [1-5] ; text, pp. 7-32; colophon, p. [33]. Size of leaf, untrimmed, 9 by 5% inches. Issued in boards, cloth back, front lettered "Four Poems. | James Russell Lowell." Two of the four poems in this volume are here printed in book-form for the first time. "King Retro" and "A Dream I had" appeared in the National Anti-Slavery Standard for May 10, 1849, and November 28, 1850. "The Royal Pedigree" was first printed, also, in the same paper, but was included in "Poems," 1848. "The Ballad of the Stranger" is here reprinted from "The Token and Atlantic Souvenir," 1842. Fifty copies of the book were printed. In Elizabeth Robins Pennell's "Life of Charles Godfrey Leland," Bos- ton, 1906, 2 vols., are included letters by Lowell, addressed to Leland, as follows : Pp. 251-252, extract from letter written in 1861. Pp. 289-292, letter dated "Elmwood, 16th Oct., 1866." This letter is reproduced in facsimile and inserted between pp. 290 and 291. Pp. 293-296, letter dated "Elmwood, 9th July, 1867." Cl32 3 Digitized by Microsoft® INDEX Adams (C. F.), Tributes to, 112, 113 Address before Birmingham and Midland Institute, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103 Address before Modern Language Association, 117, 118 Affection's Gift, 46 Alexis (Grand Duke). His Visit to the United States, 84 All Saints, 52, 54 Alpha Delta Phi Reunion Dinner, 91 American Anti-Slavery Almanac, 23 American Ideas for English Read- ers, 123 Among my Books, 80, 81 Among my Books. Second Series, 89, 90 Anti-Slavery Festival in Faneuil Hall, 46 Anti-Slavery Harp, 35 Anti-Slavery Papers, 131 Appleton's American Encyclopaedia, 56 Arbor Day, 117 Areopagitica, 120 Ark, The, 89 Atlantic Almanac, 77, 79, 80 Autograph, An, 48, 51 Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors, 68 Bainton (G.). Art of Authorship, 122 Bartlett (John), Lines to, 50, Si Batchelder (Samuel). Poetry of the Bells, 53 Beale (C. E.). History of the World's Progress, 115, 116 Biglow Papers, 23, 33, 34, 54. 55 Biglow Papers. Second Series, 61, 62, 63, 64, 68, 69, 73, 74, 75, 77 Birmingham Health Lectures, 103 Bobolink Minstrel, 56 Boker (George H.), Reception to, 84 Boston Book, 40 Boston Mob of "Gentlemen of Property and Standing," 45 Boston Society of Natural History, 85 Branded Hand, The, 20 Bristol (F. M.). Richard the Third and the Primrose Criticism, in, 112 Browning Society, Abstract of Pro- ceedings, 104 Bryant Festival at "The Century," 70 Burns (Robert), Hundredth Anni- versary of Birth of, 55, 56 Cambridge in the "Centennial," 86 Cambridge, Exercises at 250th Anni- versary of Settlement of, 98 Cambridge. Meeting in Memorial Hall, 91 Catalogue of School of Modern Languages, 85 Cathedral, The, 81 Celebration of Hundredth Anniver- sary of Birth of Burns, 55, 56 Celebration of Introduction of Wa- ter of Cochituate Lake, 32, 33 Chelsea, Mass. Dedication of Library Building, 108 Christmas Carol, 75, 76 Class Poem, 4, 5 Coles (J. A.). Abraham Coles, 123 Commemoration Ode, 71, 72, 73 Complete Angler, 118, 119 Concord. Celebration of 250th An- niversary of Incorporation, 106 Concord. Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight, 85, 86 Conversations on some of the Old Poets, 18, 19, 21, 22, 124 Cooke (G. W.). John Sullivan Dwight, 128 Dante Society. Fifth Annual Report, 109 D33 3 Digitized by Microsoft® INDEX Democracy and other Addresses, no Donne (John). Poems, 126 Donne (John). Poetical Works, 44 Dwight (John Sullivan), 128 Early Prose Writings, 130, 131 Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Commemoration of 300th Anni- versary, 105 English Poets, The, 115 Essays from the North American Review, 95 Everett (A. H.). Poems, 21 Evergreen, 21 Fable for Critics, A, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. 32 Farrar (Canon). Sir Walter Raleigh and America, 98 Favorite Authors, 57 Fireside Travels, 66 Foreign Relations. See Papers Re- lating to Foreign Relations of the United States Four Poems, 132 Furnas (R. W.). Arbor Day, 117 Gallery of Mezzotints, 35 Garden Walks with the Poets, 40, 41 Garfield (J. A.), Death of, 96,97,98 Garrison (W. L.), Selections from, Gems from the Spirit Mine, 39 Gift, The, 13, 15 Gifts of Genius, 56 Gilder (J. B.). Impressions of Spain, 129 Gill (W. R). Life of E. A. Poe,93 Golden Songs of Great Poets, 92 Good Company, 74 Greenslet (Ferris). James Russell Lowell, 131, 132 Hale (E. E.). James Russell Low- ell and his Friends, 128, 129 Halleck (F.-G), Memorial of, 93 Harrison (Gabriel). John Howard Payne, 108 Harvard Book, 87 Harvard Crimson Supplement, 125 Harvard University. Record of Commemoration of 250th Anni- versary, in Harvardiana, 3, 4 Hawthorne (Julian). Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife, 106 Heartsease and Rue, 114, 115 Higginson (H. L.). The Soldier's Field, 120 Higginson (T. W.). Part of a Man's Life, 132 His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis, 84 History of the Great Western Sani- tary Fair, 71 History of the World's Progress, 115, 116 Hughes (T.). True Manliness, 95, 96 Impressions of Spain, 129 Independent in Politics, 113 International Copyright Association, 116 Keats (John). Poetical Works, 42 Kennedy (J. P.), Tributes to, 81,82 Knickerbocker Gallery, 43, 44 Knight (W.). Wordsworthiana, 105 Ladies' Casket, 22, 23 Landon (M. D.). Kings of the Platform and Pulpit, 122 Last Poems, 126 Latest Literary Essays, 122 Laurel Leaves, 88, 89 Lectures on English Poets, 127 Letters, 124 Liberty Bell, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 20, 21, 24. 25, 35, 40 Liberty Chimes, 20 Liberty Minstrel, 16, 17 Library of Tribune Extras, 118 Lines on Reading of the Capture of Fugitive Slaves, 20 Longfellow (H. W.). Poets and Poetry of Europe, 82, 83 Lowell (Maria) . Poems, 46 Lowell, Mass. Exercises at 50th Anniversary of Incorporation, III Lyman (Theodore, Jr.), Dedication of Fountain in Memory of, in Marvell (Andrew). Poetical Works, 47 Mason and Slidell, 59 Masque of Poets, 93, 94 CI343 Digitized by Microsoft® INDEX Massachusetts Historical Society, 81, 82, 91, 92, 108, 112, 113, 128 Melibceus-Hipponax. See Biglow Papers Memorial, R. G. S., 69, 70 Memory and Hope, 39 Milton (J.) Areopagitica, 120 Minns (G. W.). Circular of his School for Boys, 80 Missionary Memorial, 21 Modern Language Association, Address before, 117, 118 Motley (J. L.), Tribute to, 91, 92 My Brook, 121 "My dear Sarah," 125 My Study Windows, 83, 84 Newbury, Mass. Celebration of 250th Anniversary, 108 New England Loyal Publication Society, 74, 75 New England Society. Celebration, 79,8s Odd-Fellow's Gem, 17 Ode at the Commemoration of the Soldiers of Harvard University, 71, 72, 73 Old Dramatists, The, 70 Old English Dramatists, 123 Old South Meeting House Report, 91 On Democracy, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103 Only Once, 64, 65 Order of Services at the Dedication of the Church in Watertown, 8, 10 Papers Relating to Foreign Rela- tions of the U. S., 92, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 105, 107, 108, 109 Payne (J. H.). Life by G. Harri- son, 108 Pennell (E. R.). Life of C. G. Leland, 132 Pesceballo, II, 58, 59, 60, 61 Pioneer, 11, 12, 13, 24 Poe (E. A.). Works, 39 Poe (E. A.), Life of. By W. F. Gill, 93 Poems (1844), 14, 15, 16 Poems (1848), 24, 25 Poems (1849), 36, 37, 38 Poetical Works (1858), 49 Poetry of the Bells, 53, 54 Poets and Poetry of Europe, 82, 83 Political Essays, 113, 114 Portraits and Autographs, 122 Power of Sound, 47, 127 President on the Stump, 74, 75 President's Policy, 65, 66 Proceedings at Centennial Celebra- tion of Concord Fight, 85, 86 Proceedings at Meeting for Forma- tion of International Copyright Association, 116 Proceedings at Presentation of a Portrait of Whittier to Friends' School, 107 Proceedings of Anti-Slavery Meet- ing at Stacy Hall, 45 Prophetic Voices Concerning America, 85 Quincy (E.), Tribute to, 91, 92 Quincy (E.). Wensley and Other Stories, 106, 107 Raleigh (Sir W.) and America, 98 Reform Club Series. The Indepen- dent in Politics, 113 Rendition of Anthony Burns, 43 Report of Committee on State of College Library, 53 Report of Proceedings at Dinner given by Society of Authors, 117 Richard the Third and the Prim- rose Criticism, ill, 112 Rose, The, 95 Ryan (Harriet). Poem written for her Fair, 52, 54 Scenes in the Lives of the Apostles, 22 Scudder (H. E.). James Russell Lowell, a Biography, 129, 130 Sewall (Samuel). Diary, 94, 95 Shakespeare, Memorial Fountain to, 122 Shaw (Robert Gould), Memorial to, 69, 70 Sheets for the Cradle, 87, 88 Shelley (P. B.). Poetical Works, 44, 45 Silhouettes and Songs, 91 Singing Leaves, 128 Society of Authors. Dinner to American Men and Women, 117 Soldier's Field, 120 Sources of the History of Oregon, 128 CI35 3 Digitized by Microsoft® INDEX Specimens of Printing Types in use at the Marion Press, 129 Speeches at Presentation of Por- trait of Bishop Butler to Trin- ity College, no, in Spirit of the Fair, 67 Stillman (W. J.). The Old Rome and the New, 128 Story of the Memorial Fountain to Shakespeare, 122 Stowe (C. E.). Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 119, 120 Sumner (Charles). Prophetic Voices, 85 Thalatta, 41 Three Memorial Poems, 90, 91 To Mr. John Bartlett, 50, 51 To the Class of '38, 4 Token and Atlantic Souvenir, 7, 9 Under the Willows, 78 Victoria Regia, 57 Vision of Sir Launfal, 34, 35 Walton (I.). Complete Angler, 118, 119 Washington Centenary, 118 Water Celebration, 32, 33 Watertown, Mass. Order of Ser- vices at Dedication; 8, 10 Wensley and Other Stories, 106, 107 West Church, Boston. Commemo- rative Services, 112 What American Authors Think about International Copyright, 116, 117 Whittier (J. G.), Proceedings at Presentation of Portrait of, 107 Wise, Witty, Eloquent Kings of the Platform and Pulpit, 122 Wordsworth (W.). Poetical Works, 42, 43 Wordsworth Society. Transactions, 104, 105 Worth Reading, 88 Writings. Elmwood Edition, 131 Writings. Riverside Edition, 121 Written in Aid of the Fair for the Poor-, 48, Si Wyman (Jeffries) . Memorial Meet- ing of Boston Society of Natural History, 85 Year's Life, A, 5, 6, 7 Young American's Magazine, 25, 26 CI363 Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft®