James Fenimore Cooper

Finely bound and illustrated set of the first Darley editions of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, which includes The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie.

• Sold as a set of 5.
• James Fenimore Cooper (American).
• Illustrated by F.O.C. Darley (American).
• New York, NY: W.A. Townsend and Company, 1859–61.
• Octavo.
• pp.[2] xiv; 13–597 [3]; pp.[2] 443 [3]; pp.[2] x; 515 [3]; pp.[2] xvi; 13–505 [3]; pp.[2] x; 9–479 [3].
• Includes an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, as well as occasional head and tail pieces, by Felix Darley to every volume.
• Recently rebound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and the original publisher’s brown gilt-stamped cloth over boards.

An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty “Hawkeye” Bumppo, from the mid-eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth, and one of the first truly American literary creations. This is the first American edition to feature illustrations.