Author: Compiled by George Bancroft Griffith
Title: The Poets of Maine. A Collection of Specimen Poems from over Four Hundred Verse-Makers of the Pine Tree State with Biographical Sketches
Publication Information: Portland, Maine. Elwell, Pickard & Company. Transcript Job Print Edward Small, Binder 1888
Call #: PS548 .M2 G7
Book Size: 23 cm (H); 15.5 cm (L); 5 cm (Spine)
Cover: brown cloth, bevelled edges; embossed floral band across the top and bottom of front cover; gilt centerpiece with title and tree entwined on front cover; back cover: embossed floral bands, no gilt center. Spine: stripes at top and bottom (both gilt); title "The Poets of Maine" gilt on spine; line, " Griffith" , Elwell, Pickard & Co on bottom - all gilt
Inside Book Covers: floral pattern (looks like the inside front cover has been papered cover)
Paper Edges:
Illustrations: --
Comments:
- "To the Sons and Daughters of Maine at home and Abroad This Volume is respectfully inscribed" (in all caps)
- Preface signed "G.B.G."
- Table of Contributors in alphabetical order by last name
- Biographical data given under each poet's name and before the poems under each entry
- Poets not listed in alphabetical order in text
- Note table of contents in the back - lists poems in alphabetical order
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Late 19th-Century American Text Production
- Canon Formation
