Poets and etchers
By: poems by T.B. Aldrich, W.C. Bryant, R.W. Emerson, J.R. Lowell, H.W. Longfellow, J.G. Whittier, etchings by A.F. Bellows, Samuel Colman, Henry Farrer, R. Swain Gifford, J.D. Smillie
Publisher: James R. Osgood and Co.; Ticknor and Co.
Published: 1881
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: American poetry; American Etching; Etching; Poetry; Collections
Notes: " ... 20 new etchings by Smillie, Gifford, Bellows, etc. Each on full quarto page, and made for this book. Dozens of beautiful vignettes"--Publisher's advertisement, Publisher's Weekly, 17 Dec. 1881, p. 842.

BAL, as cited below, lists a "trade edition," "China-Paper edition limited to 100 numbered copies," and an "edition with the plates signed by their respective artists."

Publisher's device (Ticknor & Co.)--on title page.

Printer's device on title page verso, which also reads: "Copyright, 1881, by James R. Osgood and Co., all rights reserved."

Includes vignettes and twenty plates of original etchings with slipsheets attached.

BAL, v.1, p. 380 (Bryant)
Table of contents: title: Nocturne  -- T.B. Aldrich; title: The path  -- W.C. Bryant; title: "Oh, fairest of the rural maids"  -- W.C. Bryant; title: The snow storm  -- R.W. Emerson; title: The apology  -- R.W. Emerson; title: The wayside inn  -- H.W. Longfellow -- The belfry of Bruges / -- H.W. Longfellow; title: Twilight  -- H.W. Longfellow; title: The baron of St. Castine  -- H.W. Longfellow; title: Woods in winter  -- H.W. Longfellow; title: Flowers  -- H.W. Longfellow; title: The lighthouse  -- H.W. Longfellow; title: Amalfi  -- H.W. Longfellow; title: Summer storm  -- J.R. Lowell; title: Telling the bees  -- J.G. Whittier; title: The last walk in autumn  -- J.G. Whittier; title: Palestine  -- J.G. Whittier; title: The lakeside -- J.G. Whittier.