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Very Good. The 1882 manuscript is bound with recent cloth spine and Arches paper covers, measures 11 x 8.5 inches, 60 leaves, the manuscript to Western Pennsylvania poet's long, visionary, Blakean and Whitmanesque poem, with fantastic, almost Swedenborgian scenes of "The New Creation," featuring Maticia, a beautiful woman, Azaziel, a powerful seraph, and other otherworldly figures, including the lovely Humana, an Eve-like figure who falls in love with a lyre-playing youth. Illustrated by a number of Scalp Level artists from Western Pennsylvania (so named for the compound of houses in Scalp Level, PA, Cambria County, where artists resided and painted, especially fine depictions of Pennsylvania woodlands and landscapes): there is an oil painting by George Hetzel (8 x 5.5 inches); A. S. Wall drew a pen and ink wash moonlit scene to illustrate a section of the poem. J. R. Woodwell contributes four works: a pencil sketch of a mysterious mountainous vista; a lakeside view in moonlight, pen and ink wash;… Read More