Description:  A very good copy of the 1895 first American edition published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York and John Lane in London. Illustrated with nearly 100-line drawings by Charles Robinson including the black & white illustrated frontispiece and title page. Bound in rust colored cloth with gilt titles present to the spine and gilt decoration present to the boards. Top edge gilt, side pages are rag edges. Damp stain to upper left front, sunning to spine, corners bumped and cloth chipped at spine tips. The interior is in nice condition with some toning to endpapers. The Ex-Libris label on the front endpaper is that of once prominent Portland Maine attorney Thomas Lincoln Talbot. A gift inscription on the front free endpaper reads "For Tom and Alice from Mrs. Longfellow". We can't trace the provenance with certainty, but Talbot graduated from Harvard in 1876 with Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, (Henry's Nephew) and the two were close friends. The signature is most probably Mary Clapp Longfellow, Alexanders Mother and Henry's Sister-In-Law who lived near the Talbot's at the time in Portland, Maine.