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The Complete Writings.: With Portraits, Illustrations, and Facsimiles.
by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin,, [c.1904]. A handsome set Old Manse edition of Hawthorne's collected works, richly illustrated. "Critics and biographers continue to regard Hawthorne as his distinguished contemporaries Fields and Melville didas a shrewd and large-minded writer who read widely and pondered deeply about the human condition and about American identity from Puritan times to his own" (ANB). The illustrations are from several key American illustrators of the time including Jessie Wilcox Smith, Howard Pyle, Frank T. Merrill, Maude Cowles, and Sarah S. Stilwell. The Old Manse for which the edition is named was Hawthorne's home from 1842 until 1845, renting the house from the family of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2Two volumes, octavo (193 x 122 mm). Publisher's red half morocco, marbled paper sides, spines lettered in gilt in compartments with foliate frames, raised bands, top edges gilt, marbeled endpapers, partially unopened. Frontispieces, engraved title page vignettes and 96 plates with captioned tissue guards. Bookplate of surgeon Arthur M. Shipley (18781955) on front pastedowns. Slight rubbing to board edges, spots of wear at tips gilt bright, margins faintly toned, a couple of short closed tears and small marginal loss at haphazardly opened gatherings in early volumes; an attractive set in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155385
- Title
- The Complete Writings.
- Author
- HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
- Date Published
- [c.1904]
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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