1891 Song of Hiawatha Longfellow Frederic Remington ART Native American Indians

1891 Song of Hiawatha Longfellow Frederic Remington ART Native American Indians

“When thou smilest, my beloved,

Then my troubled heart is brightened” 

– H.W. Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha

An incredible first edition of ‘The Song of Hiawatha’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This epic and popular 19^th-century poem tells the love story of an Ojibwe warrior and his love for a Dakota woman. Longfellow describes Indian legends that have stood the test of time, particularly in comparison to the religious themes that are employed through verse.

It was Longfellow who helped the American public understand the image of the Native American. According to Pearce,

“It was Longfellow who fully realized for mid-19^th-century Americans the possibility of the image of the noble savage. [Prior to ‘Hiawatha’] there was a general feeling that the Indian belonged nowhere in American life but in dim prehistory” (p. 191)

This 1891 Riverside Press limited edition was published in Cambridge, Boston and bound in beautiful vellum. Numbered no. 51 of 250 copies. Very rare!

Item number: #25820

Price: $499

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth

The Song of Hiawatha

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Riverside Press, 1891. Limited edition

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • iv, 242
  • Heavily illustrated throughout
    • Portrait frontispiece of Longfellow
    • 22 full-page engravings by Frederic Remington
    • Hundreds of in-text illustrations by Remington
  • References: Pearce, Savages of America; BAL 12112
  • Provenance: Bookplate – Alfred Spencer Lowell
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Vellum; secure
  • Size: ~9.5in X 6.75in (24cm x 17.5cm)

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