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Christus : a mystery / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Accession number
PML 196321-23
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Published
Boston : James R. Osgood and Co., 1872.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
"For this uniform editon of the three parts...he wrote new introductory and intercalary poems. These comprise "Introitus" which precedes the whole; "The Abbot Joachim" inserted between "The divine tragedy" and "The golden legend"; "Martin Luther", inserted between the latter and "The New England tragedies" and "Saint John", the finale."--Luther S. Livingston, Bibl. of first editions, 1908, p. 83.
Each part had appeared separately as follows: The golden legend, 1851; The New England tragedies, 1868; The divine tragedy, 1871.
First edition.
Description
3 v. ; 20 cm
Provenance
Theodore Irwin, purchased from W.E. Benjamin, July 1885; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Half red morocco by Pratt
Classification
Department