Lot 2
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • The Complete Writings... Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1900
  • paper, ink, leather, gilt
22 volumes. 8vo. Frontispieces in two states and signed by the artists. Publisher's three quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, richly tooled gilt spines, raised bands, top edges gilt, few light scuffs.

Literature

BAL 7645. 

Catalogue Note

Includes Hawthorne document signed as the "Surveyor for the District of Salem and Beverly and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Salem" 1848, for a shipment of "Gum Copal."

Large Paper Edition number 36 of  500 numbered copies. Signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the author's daughter. Artists with signed works herein  include Anne Whelan Butts, Sarah Stillwell, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Maude Cowles, Childe Hassam, Howard Pyle, Alice Barber Stephens, Ernest Peixoto, and Frank Merrill amongst others.