HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL | Famous Old People: Being the Second Epoch of Grandfather’s Chair. Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841

The Property of a Gentleman

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL 

Famous Old People: Being the Second Epoch of Grandfather’s Chair. Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841

16mo (3 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.; 80 x 121 mm). Some minor foxing. Publisher's basket-weave plum cloth, front cover with black paper label decoratively lettered in gilt; spine just sunned, some minor spotting. In custom brown clothed covered clamshell case. 

First edition, the Natalie Blair copy

The second title in Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair series for children. 

A lovely copy of a scarce title

REFERENCES

BAL 7591; Clark A7.1

PROVENANCE

Natalie Blair (book label to front pastedown) — Christie’s New York, 14 December 2016, lot 223