Poems
Emily Dickinson (Author), Mabel Loomis Todd (Editor), Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Editor, Writer of preface), Roberts Brothers (Boston, Mass) (Publisher), University Press (Cambridge, Mass) (Printer), John Wilson and Son (Electrotyper), Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
Print Book, English, 1890
[First American edition, first printing] View all formats and editions
Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1890
poetry
xii pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 14-152 pages ; 19 cm
235065
In original publisher's binding: gray cloth on spine, white on boards, the meeting of the two marked by a silver-stamped wavy line. Title, author, and illustration of Indian pipe flowers stamped in silver on upper board; title, small illustration, author, place of publication, and publisher stamped in gilt on spine. Binding A, as described in Myerson. Binding B style, the wavy line, front board title and author lettering is gold-stamped
Top edges trimmed and gilt stamped
Edition statement from Myerson
"John Wilson and Son, Cambridge"--Title page verso
500 copies printed Oct. 8, 1890, price, $1.50. Cf. Myerson