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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882). Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. 8vo. v, [3], [1]-225, [3], [1]-21 publisher’s ads. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with 1863 imprint on title page; p. 125, verse 3 “whistled, saying” later changed to “whistling, said”; p. 174, verse 4 up, “his only pastime”, later “his sole diversion”. Additional vignette title page inserted with tissue guard. Publisher’s TR (BAL cloth grain) purple cloth blind stamped with rosettes at corners and several rules to covers, spine titled in gilt, brown-coated endpapers, top edge gilt (covers sunned at extremities, corners gently rubbed). BAL 12136. [Together:] Tales of a Wayside Inn. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864. 8vo. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Frontispiece of the author by Joseph Brown with tissue guard. Publisher’s green cloth in gilt (some darkening and cockling to boards).