Golden leaves from the American poets
By: collected by John W. S. Hows ; with an introductory essay by Alexander Smith ...
Contributors: Hows, John W. S. 1797-1871.; Smith, Alexander, 1830?-1867.; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Dodgson, G. 1811-1880.; Dalziel Brothers.; Ballantyne & Company
Series: Landsdowne poets
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co.
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Golden leaves
Notes: Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Includes "American Poetry.": p. [v]-xxii.

Includes works by William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James T. Fields, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others.

Preliminary steel-engraved portrait includes engraved facsimile signature: "Yours truly Henry W. Longfellow" and imprint: "London : Frederick Warne & Co.".  Plate is unsigned.

Wood-engraved plates are signed as engraved by Dalziel after B. Foster, G. Dogson and "ED".  Plates are with captions.

Probably part of the "Landsdowne Poets" series.  Cf. OCLC.

MASS copy: Bound in red morocco blocked in blind with spine title blocked in gold.  Board turn-ins blocked in gold.  Spine with imprint: "F. Warne & Co.".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With marbled endpapers.