Hyperion
Subtitle: a romance
By: by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; illustrated with nearly one hundred engravings on wood, from drawings by Birket Foster
Edition: Third edition.
Series: Longfellow's prose works
Publisher: Dean & Son
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Other titles: David and Shiu-min Block Collection of Bookbindings (Houghton Library)
Notes: The first edition appeared in 1853; the final leaf announcing Dean & Sons' intention of following Hyperion with Kavanagh is signed "11 Ludgate Hill," which was the publisher's location between 1857 and 1865.

Inscribed "For dear Caroline with Cousin Edmund's love and best wishes, April 8th, 1865"; from the library of David and Shiu-min Block.

Bound in original gold and blind-blocked morocco grained cloth over heavy bevelled boards (hinges cracked), cover title gilt, edges gilt; in CMI case.