POETS AND ETCHERS. Osgood, Boston, 1882. Large 4to., cloth, 83pp, 20 poems by T. B. Aldrich, W. C. Bryant, R. W. Emerson, J. R. Lowell, H. W. Longfellow, and J. G. Whittier, each accompanied by an etching by A. F. Bellows, Samuel Colman, Henry Farrer, R. Swain Gifford, and J. D. Smillie. An early and important book of the etching revival, influenced by the French "Poemes et Eaux-Fortes," and the precursor of the many large format etching albums that followed. Edgewear to binding. Bellows' plate, "The Path" has been replaced with a copy from another edition of the book in slightly smaller format. There is foxing to plates resulting from the tissue guards, else Very Good.
