The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. With Numerous Illustrations.

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A hardcover copy of The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. With Numerous Illustrations. It is a cloth-bound book with a sewn binding and gilded page edges. The book has a brick red cover with embossed gold leaf and black text and design elements. At the top third of the front cover is a gold rectangle with the text, [WHITTIER], centrally printed in black ink. In the bottom right quadrant, is an embossed, black, rectangular, striped frame with the text, [ILLUSTRATED], printed in black at the center. The frame has embossed black rosettes at each corner. In the bottom right corner, overlaying the rectangle, is an embossed circular frame with a depiction of a small house with smoke rising from the chimney. The remaining surface of the front cover is heavily decorated with a black embossed sunflower motif with stemmed leaves and flowers.

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