The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Irꦓa Lipman

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Evangeline, A Tale of Arcadie. Boston: William Ticknor & Company, 1847

8vo (184 x 116 mm). 4-page publisher's catalog🔯ue dated October 1, 1847 at beginning, early inscription to flyleaf; offsetting from booklabelജ, a few light spots. Plain publisher's boards with printed paper label to spine; backstrip detatched from upper cover, light shelf wear, hinge starting. Housed in a folding cloth case. Two fragments of a letter from the firm Thomas J. Gannon, Inc. (probably 1940s) offering the copy laid in. 

First edition, first state, with the intact type ("Long") at 61:1

Very shortly after printing began, the "ng" of Long dropped out of the plate, and the word was erroneously printed as "Lo" until it was corrected in 🌠the fifth edition. Only about ten copies in this first state are known. 

PROVENANCE

Mrs. John Insley Blair (Blairhame booklabel)

REFERENCE

BAL 12089; Wilson 224