[Griswold, Rufus W.] editor. The Casket of Love, from the most celebrated authors, with Several Original Pieces; Selected by the Editor of "Poetry of the Affections." Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, (1849). First Edition. [10726]
Red blind stamped cloth, 10.6 x 7 cm (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches), gilt to spine, slight edge-wear, all page edges gilt, tight. Lithograph frontispiece portrait of L. E. Landon by T. B. Welch. "Printed by T. K. & P. G. Collins" on verso of tp. Includes a helf-title. 120 clean pp. Very good. Hardcover.
Date of publication source: WorldCat. A scarce title.
This collection includes poems by Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Shelley, Mrs. Hemans, Miss Landon, &c.
The compiler & editor was Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815-1857), b. Benson, Vermont; d. New York City. He was an early supporter of American poetry and literature, and his The Poets and Poetry of America (1842) was an influential work on the genre. It included over 80 authors, with pieces by Edgar Allan Poe and Lydia Sigourney. Griswold was a literary critic, magazine & journal editor, and the compiler of several works of poetry.
