First Edition, later state (with this volume priced in the ads at rear). Original pebbled green cloth with gilt stamped spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece engraving with tissue-guard of Old Bull playing violin in The Wayside Inn. LONGFELLOW'S INKED INSCRIPTION signed "Yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow" on tipped-in paper slip. Neat contemporary inscription dated 1863. One of Longfellow's best remembered books containg his poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." Some spotting to frontis and tissue-guard else a clean and very good copy.