[ Books ] LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Hyperion, a Romance. Plates and illustrations by Birket Foster. 8vo, publisher's handsome blue cloth blocked in blind and gilt with a center diamond pattern enclosing a gold heart and flower ornament, by JOHN

[ Books ] LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Hyperion, a Romance. Plates and illustrations by Birket Foster. 8vo, publisher's handsome blue cloth blocked in blind and gilt with a center diamond pattern enclosing a gold heart and flower ornament, by JOHN LEIGHTON, with hisinitials in gilt at foot of spine. London: Bogue, 1853 E350/500 FIRSTILLUSTRATED EDITION, INSCRIBED BY LONGFELLOW to his step-mother-in-law Harriet Sumner Appleton, in pencil: "H.S.A from H.W.L." Harriet was the second wife of Nathan Appleton whose daughter Frances Elizabeth became Longfellow's second wife and the model for the heroine of Hyperion. Nathan Appleton attested to the provenance, also in pencil, signed with his initials below Longfellow's; his calling card is alsomounted to the front pastedown. BAL 12370.