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Very good. Revised. Tall 8vo, publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt on spine and with gilt decoration on front cover. Very good, light wear. 552 pp. With shield-shaped embossed blindstamp for the Shields family on title page and next three pages. Selections from Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Timothy Dwight, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, Fisher Ames, John Quincy Adams, Charles Brockden Brown, William Wirt, Josiah Quincy, Washington Allston, Joseph Story, James Kirk Paulding, Timothy Flint, William Ellery Channing, Henry Wheaton, John Caldwell Calhoun, Daniel Webster, John James Audubon, Robert Walsh, Washington Irving, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Gulian C Verplank, Andrew Norton, John Sanderson, Richard H. Dana, Richard Henry Wilde, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexander H. Everett, James Hall, Henry Howe Schoolcraft, Orville Dewey, Jared Sparks, John Neal, William Cullen Bryant, Edward Everett, John Pendleton Kennedy, George Bush, Catherine M Sedgwick, Francis Wayland, William H Prescott, Edward Robinson, Eliza Leslie, Hugh Swinton Legare, William Ware, George Bancroft, George P. Marsh, Herman Hooker, Orestes A. Brownson, Lydia M. Child, Robert Montgomery Bird, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore S. Faye, George V. Cheever, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Carolyn M Kirkland, Nathaniel Hawthorne, NP. Willis, Henry W. Longfellow, William Gilmore Simms, Joseph C. Neil, Edgar A. Poe (Fall of the House of Usher), Henry Theodore Tuckerman, S. Margaret Fuller, J. T. Headley, Cornelius Matthews, T. B. Thorpe, and E. P. Whipple. Griswold was Poe's literary executor, we're kind of surprised there's not more Poe here and no Thoreau--? ?
