Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier by Samuel T. Pickard. Artist's Edition in Two Volumes: Illustrated with Etchings and Photogravures.

Two Volumes; 5 6/8 inches x 8 6/8 in., half-titles; frontispieces with title-printed tissue guards; title-pages printed in red and black with Riverside Press device, limitation statement on reverse of title-page; preface; contents; list of illustrations. Volume 1: [x], [1]-402 pp.; Volume 2: [viii], pp. [403]-802, including index; illustrated with a total of 20 plates, each with title-printed tissue guards. Dark brown morocco leather spines, sides and corner-pieces, with five raised bands on the spines, and gilt-lettered titling and designs in compartments, with marbled paper over boards; top-edges gilt, headbands, green silk bookmarker ribbons bound in, matching marbled endpapers. The spines show light fading, light wear to cover corners. Includes letters during the Civil War period and letters from Whittier to: Celia Thaxter, Sarah Orne Jewett, Dorothea Dix. Weight: 5 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.