HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.

£4,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Complete Writings: With Portraits, Illustrations, and Facsimiles. Autograph edition, number 192 of 500 sets printed, here elaborately bound by Stikeman. Each volume is signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the publisher, and the artist of its frontispiece. Plates are provided by some of the most prominent American illustrators of the time, including Jessie Wilcox Smith, Eric Pape, Maude Cowles, Sarah S. Stilwell, and the photographer Clifton Johnson.Hawthorne is regarded by critics 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 set of 22 volumes is accompanied by a biography of his life and works written by George E. Woodberry, bound in the same style.

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