Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston.1869 Good condition hardcover,286 pages, 4.5" by 7", Gilt top edge, wear to covers ,a vintage sticker to cover, and a vintage gift inscription on title page.""No collection of the author's poems has been made since 1848, and some of those in this volume date back even farther than that. All but two of the shortest have been printed before, either wholly or in part... A few pieces, more strictly comic, have been omitted... and Fitz Adam's story... is also left to stand over, because it belongs to a connected series"-" James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled the popularity of British poets."(Wikipedia)