THE WRITINGS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, [With Introductory Notes and Bibliographical notes by H.E. Scudder] and the General Introduction by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop [the author's daughter].

Houghton Mifflin and Company [and] The Riverside Press, - Cambridge, 1900

2925,00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, Stati Uniti d'America)

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Anno di pubblicazione

1900

Luogo di stampa

Boston and New York

Autore

Hawthorne

Editori

Houghton Mifflin and Company [and] The Riverside Press,, Cambridge

Edizione

FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH EDITION OF THE WORKS

Lingue

Inglese

Prima edizione

Sì

Descrizione

22 volumes. The Autograph Edition, Designed by Bruce Rogers and Limited to 500 Signed and Numbered Copies of which this is No. 42. The Edition is signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop and the Clerk of the Houghton Mifflin Company. Illustrated throughout with plates by American artists. Each Frontispiece plate in two states, both coloured and uncoloured, and each signed by a different artist. Those signed include: Childe Hassam, Ross Turner, Jules Guerin, Howard Pyle, Jesse Willcox Smith, Eric Paper, F.T. Merrill and E.H. Garrett. Over 130 plates are included throughout the 22 volumes. Tall 8vo, very finely bound in especially handsome three-quarter rich dark-turquoise crushed levant morocco over marbled boards gilt, the spines very beautifully decorated with fine and elaborate panel designs gilt within the compartments between raised bands gilt stopped, lettered in gilt in two compartments, marbled endleaves to match, top edges gilt. A very beautiful and very handsome set, very fine and very well preserved and a very special survival thus.