Complete writings by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2010-09-13

BiblioLife, 2009-03-19. Paperback. Used:Good.

Wentworth Press. Hardcover. New. 9x6x0.

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 did—as 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. 22 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… Read More

Houghton, Mifflin & Co: Boston & New York, 1900. Large Paper Edition. Leather Bound. Very good/Very good. Large Paper Edition. Leather Bound. H: 9", D: 6 1/4", W: 1 1/4" 22 Volumes. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Complete Writings. Large Paper Edition. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and silk boards with the raised band spines gilt-tooled with inlaid flowers. The top edges are gilt with silk endpapers. Includes portraits, illustrations, and facsimiles. 500 copies printed, this being no. 329. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900.