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4 octavo volumes. Includes: The Biglow Papers. Newly Edited, with a Preface by the Author of “Tom Brown’s School-Days.” Reprinted, with the Author’s Sanction, from the Fourth American Edition. Original blind-stamped blue-green cloth, spine with gilt lettering. First English edition, preceded by an English issue using the American sheets of the 1848 edition. London: Trübner & Co., 1859. On Democracy: An Address Delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on the 6th of October, 1884. Original printed wrappers bound in modern three-quarter morocco, buckram cloth sides, gilt spine lettering. First trade edition, preceded by privately printed issue for Lowell’s personal use only. Birmingham: Printed by Cond Bros., 1884. Democracy and Other Addresses. Original maroon cloth, gilt lettering. Addresses on a number of political and literary issues. Scattered inoffensive pencil notes in the text. Later ink signature on the front blank. First English Edition. London: Macmillan, 1887. The Old English Dramatists. With frontispiece portrait. White cloth spine, gray boards, printed paper label. First edition, large paper format, No. 106 of 300 numbered copies. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1892. A selection of works by James Russell Lowell. An American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, Lowell is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled the popularity of British poets.