Lot 141
  • 141

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • The Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900
  • paper, ink, leather
22 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces in two states and signed by the artists. Three-quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, spines with raise bands in six compartments, gilt-lettered in second and fourth, others richly tooled in gilt, top edges gilt, some uncut; a few light scuffs, small tear to joint on head of first volume.

Literature

BAL 7645 

Catalogue Note

LARGE PAPER EDITION, number 363 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.