This is a handsome, fine binding edition of "The Poetical Works of JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL." Also included is a biographical sketch of Lowell at the front. 1898; Thomas Y. Crowell and Company; New York. Nicely bound in full leather with a cameo of Lowell inlaid on the front cover, gilt page edges on all sides of the text block, decorative end papers, gilt lettering and decorations on the front cover and spine, and a ribbon page marker. There is a frontispiece portrait of Lowell with a tissue guard. The contents are grouped as follows:  Biographical Sketch; Early Poems; Miscellaneous Poems; Memorial Verses.