📚 Step into the golden age of American verse with this exceptional signed and inscribed second edition of The Book of Elizabethan Verse (Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1907), edited with notes by the famed African American writer William Stanley Braithwaite. Signed and inscribed in 1910 by Braithwaite himself—celebrated poet, anthologist, publisher and literary critic—with a hand-penned line from Robert Herrick’s “To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses.”
Also bearing the bold signature of Thomas Wentworth Higginson—abolitionist, Civil War colonel, and Emily Dickinson’s legendary mentor—who pens the book’s stirring introduction and to whom the work is lovingly dedicated.
✒️ Features:
Dual-signature copy: Braithwaite (dated May 31, 1910) and Higginson
Braithwaite’s inscribed poetic line to the original owner
Publisher’s dark blue cloth binding with gilt-stamped titles and decoration
All page edges gilt: dark blue silk bookmark laid in
823 pages, including Notes, Glossary, and indexes of titles, authors, and first lines
Light rubbing to spine tips and corners; mild sunning to spine—overall Very Good or Better
🔍 A truly collectible and historically resonant volume, rarely encountered with the powerful presence of both Braithwaite and Higginson—two men who shaped literary and cultural discourse across generations. Add this exquisite artifact of poetry and progress to your collection today.