Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth - 1893

New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1893. Hardcover. An exceptionally nice reprint edition of Longfellow's famous epic poem, which is centered around the expulsion of French colonists from Acadia (today's Canadian Maritime provinces) by the British during the French and Indian War. With a black & white engraved frontis illustration of the protagonist and a second, decorative title page which also has an image of Evangeline. Includes a few scattered black & white illustrations. --- This compact volume in black moire cloth-covered boards with decorative cover fillet and spine titling stamped in gilt; all edges gilt and with green patterned floral endpapers. --- With moderate sunning to spine and some chafing to cloth at spine ends, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; 24mo (5 to 6 in. tall); (8), 181 pages .