Poems

Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1849. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Brown cloth boards, with blind-stamped floral designs and ruling on the covers. Gilt lettering on the spines. Spine appears to have been strengthened, else vg+. The two-volume collection of poems and sonnets by James Russell Lowell is a revision on the first edition of this collection published the previous year, and includes some omissions and additions. This copy is inscribed "To James T. Fields/With the sincere regard/of the author/Xmas 1849" Quite an association copy between the literary light of that time. James T. Fields became junior partner in the bookselling firm of Ticknor, Reed and Fields in 1838, which became Ticknor and Fields in 1854 and Fields, Osgood and Co. in 1868. His Old Corner Bookstore, which served as a meeting place of the literary world, was a Boston institution. He was the publisher of the foremost contemporary American writers, with most of whom he was on terms of close personal friendship; John Greenleaf Whittier, for instance, depicted him in The Tent on the Beach. He was also the American publisher of some of the best-known British writers of his time. In 1861-70, as the successor of James Russell Lowell, he edited The Atlantic Monthly. Fields's writings include: Poems (1849), Yesterdays With Authors (1872), and Hawthorne (1876)..