The Golden Legend
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. Second printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo, pp. iv, (1-3), 301; four page Publisher's catalogue inserted and dated January, 1852; blind stamped brown cloth, gilt; yellow end papers;. Very good. Item #15981
BAL #12102. This is a book-length narrative poem based on a Middle High German romance by Hartmann von Aue [c.1170 - c.1210]; Longfellow's version was soon adapted as a cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan. This copy does have all thirteen of the second-printing issue points enumerated by Blanck.
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