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| Other uniform titles: | Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Nineteenth Century English Poetry.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Graham, James Lorimer, 1831-1876, former owner.
Paton, J. No�l (Joseph No�l), 1821-1901 Sir, inscriber.
William Blackwood and Sons, publisher.
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| Provenance: | Copy 1: Inscription: Isabella Phillipps from P., Christmas, 1871.
Copy 2: Armorial bookplate: James Lorimer Graham.
Copy 2: Inscription: You ask me to write some lines in this volume of aimless and vapid verse. But rather than add more of the same kind, let let me inscribe this page with some stanzas from one of the noblest poems of one of the truest thinkers and sweetest singers that the wrold has known: your own Longfellow. [lines from "Life is real!, Life is earnest!] ... J. Noël Patton, Edinburgh, Jan[uar]y 29, 1867.
Copy 1: Binding: Publisher's cream cloth with basket weave-like texture over boards; gilt design of a staff with painter's palette and pan pipes on front cover; binder's ticket: Bound by Burn.
Copy 2: Binding: Publisher's cream buckram over boards; gilt design of a staff with painter's palette and pan pipes on front cover; binder's ticket: Bound by Burn.
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| Notes: | By J. Noël Patton. Consult New Cambridge bibliography of English literature.
New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, volume 3, column 546
Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century Poetry, entry 606
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