Evangeline
Subtitle: courtship of Miles Standish and other poems
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher: Howe Memorial Press, Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind
Published: 1881
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Blind -- Books and reading -- Specimens; Blind, Poetry for the; Blind -- Printing and writing systems; Printing -- Specimens; Embossing (Printing) -- Specimens
Genres: Specimens
Notes: Copyright by Houghton Mifflin

"Electrotyped"--t.p.

Evangeline is embossed in Boston Line Type, a raised Roman alphabet designed at Perkins School for the Blind in the 1830s by the school's first director, Samuel Gridley Howe. A number of books were printed in this system for people who were blind during the nineteenth century.