Leather. 8vo. Published by D. Appleton Co., New York, 1859. xxvi, 798 pgs. Fifth Edition. Bound in leather boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 798 pages of English and American poetry, including three poems by Edgar Allan Poe. For Poe, who died at 40 ten years before the printing of this book, this is an early appearance of his work in an anthology. Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862.
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