Quarto (9 3/8" x 7 1/8" x 1 1/2"), pictorial gilt-stamped brown cloth with large color plate paste-down executed by Maxfield Parrish, illustrated with frontispiece by N.C. Wyeth of "Hiawatha Fishing" (with tissue guard), & throughout by Frederic Remington with 22 "sepia" brown plates; and B&W images of artifacts in page margins; vocabulary and notes, light tan simulated birchbark endpapers; top of pages gilded; 242 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 11.4 oz. Wonderfully illustrated epic poem on the Native American Mohawk chieftain Hiawatha (founder of the Iroquois Confederacy) by America's greatest 19th century lyric and narrative poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The color frontispiece by N.C Wyeth and Remington "sepia" plates are unfoxed with excellent definition and brightness; the B&W drawings on page margins by Remington of Indian artifacts are crisp. The cloth is firm and square; the covers are somewhat rubbed with scuffing and wear to the color plate by Maxfield Parrish. The heavy stock pages are clean and ever-so-slightly unformly toned. No previous ownership markings. No dust jacket.