[Rarebooks] For Sale: The Chamberlain copy of Whittier's "Vision of Echard"

[Norman Kane]

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF.   THE VISION OF ECHARD AND OTHER 
POEMS.  Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co.; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 
1878. First edition.  BAL 21958: binding A.  Small octavo, original 
gold-stamped cloth, beveled edges, top edge gilt, decorated end 
papers.  A nice copy, in a custom cloth dust jacket with leather 
label. From the collection of the noted collector and bibliographer, 
Jacob Chester Chamberlain,with his bookplate
(stars, a U.S. shield, the Western Hemisphere, and books.)  A 
superior copy.  (Includes his "At Eventide," which concludes: 
"Justice whose clear eyes / through lapse and failure look to the 
intent, / and judge our frailty by the life we meant." 
)  $125.00                   (Trade Discount, 10%)


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