14 works in 14 volumes, various 8vo sizes. Each in original publisher's cloth with later glassine wrappers (a few volumes with extremities lightly rubbed). All housed in matching burgundy morocco-backed folding cases gilt, stamp-signed by W. Root & Son (slight rubbing to corners of a few volumes and to a few hinges).

FIRST EDITIONS, all published in Boston by Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Ticknor and Fields, James R. Osgood, or Houghton, Osgood and Company, or in London by Wiley & Putnam, comprising:

The Supernaturalism of New England. L, 1843. -- Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Bost., 1849. -- Old Portraits and Modern Sketches. Bost., 1850. -- Literary Recreations and Miscellanies. Bost., 1854. -- The Panorama, and Other Poems. Bost., 1856. -- Home Ballads and Poems. Bost., 1860. -- The Patience of Hope. Bost., 1862. -- In War Time, and Other Poems. Bost., 1864. -- The Tent on the Beach. Bost., 1867. -- Among the Hills. Bost., 1869. -- Miriam, and Other Poems. Bost., 1871. -- The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems. Bost., 1872. -- Hazel Blossoms. Bost., 1875. -- The Vision of Echard and Other Poems. Bost., 1878.

Whittier, a Quaker who worked as a newspaper editor, invested as much passion in his abolitionist campaigning as he did in his poetry. The present group is housed in fine matching cases by the London bindery of W. Root & Co.