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The Writings...Signed by LOWELL, James Russell
First collected edition
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$950.00
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Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1890-92. First collected edition. Boards. Very Good. LOWELL, James Russell. The Writings Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1890-92. Twelve vols. Original boards, white cloth spines and paper labels. Offsetting from clippings on Lowell’s death in Vol. 1. Spines darkened, soiled and rubbed, as usual, else a Very Good or better set. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, one of only 300 numbered sets. Lowell (1819-1891) author, teacher, magazine editor [The Atlantic Monthly, The North American Review], and public servant, produced a formidable canon of prose during his long and venerated career. This Presentation Copy, contains a long, signed inscription on the front fly leaf of Volume I, from Lowell to Thomas Francis Bayard, Secretary of State under Grover Cleveland and the first U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. This is a significant association, since Lowell was himself U.S. Minister to the Court of St. James eight years earlier--- before the U.S. decided to give its foreign envoys ambassadorial rank. INSCRIBED BY LOWELL: "Mr. T.F.B. It is a great pleasure to inscribe here my unqualified respect for a man so eminently conspicuous for patriotic service in the Senate and the Cabinet and so faithful to public and private duty as T.F. Bayard. J.R. Lowell 31st Dec. 1890" SIGNED BY BAYARD. Additionally signed by Bayard: T.F. Bayard, Nov. 7th, 1890. Lowell was considered primarily a poet, but his essays and literary criticism proved him to be an apt humorist and political satirist as well. His early career showed him deeply involved with the abolitionist movement. “Thus at twenty-nine, he had made his challenge in all the fields of production in which his ultimate place among American writers must be determined.” His Bigelow Papers [1848] satirize and criticize America’s involvement in the Mexican War, especially in regards to the possible extension of slavery. A later series of Bigelow Papers readily conveyed his sentiments on the Civil War and had a visible effect on public opinion at that time. In 1877 he was appointed Minister to Spain and the minister to the Court of St. James in 1880.
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