The Tent on the Beach

John Greenleaf Whittier. First edition. Dust Jacket: None. Hardcover: Very Good+ Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, the Riverside Press, 1899. Dark green cloth with exquisite gilt-blocked design on cover and spine designed by Margaret Armstrong. No writing or markings in this wonderful book, 110 pp. 12 full-page black and white tissue-guarded plates by Charles H. Woodbury and Marcia O. Woodbury.

Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. He was considered one of the fireside poets