The complete works of Nathaniel Hawthorne / with introductory notes by George Parsons Lathrop; and illustrated with etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner. In twelve volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Contributor:

Lathrop, George Parsons, 1851-1898.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

Local Subjects:

American literature.

Penn Provenance:

Stanwood, Minnie Wellington (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Riverside edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883-1891. (Cambridge, Mass. : Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton & Co. The Riverside Press)

Contents:

I. Twice-told tales.

II. Mosses from an old manse.

III. The house of the seven gables and The snow image and other twice-told tales.

IV. A wonder-book, Tanglewood tales, and Grandfather's chair.

V. The scarlet letter and The Blithedale romance.

VI. The marble faun

VII-VIII. Our old home, and English note-books.

IX. Passages from the American notebooks.

X. Passages from the French and Italian note-books.

XI. The Dolliver romance, Fanshawe, and Septimus Felton, with an appendix containing The ancestral footstep.

XII. Tales, sketches, and other papers, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with a biographical sketch, by G.P. Lathrop.

Notes:

Half-title: each volume has special t.-p. with vignette.

Illustrations are used as volume frontispieces and title page vignettes and are printed on a fold of white wove paper; text printed on white laid paper.

Edition varies.

Vol. XIII (Doctor Grimshaw's Secret ...' edited, with an introduction and notes by Julian Hawthorne (1889?) was published in 1883 but "was not identified as vol. XIII of the 'Riverside Edition' and the works were not advertised as available in 13 volumes until about 1889 following Houghton Mifflin's acquisition of the rights to the property. (The half-titles in all 'Riverside Edition' volumes were revised between 1889 and 1891 to designate works in thirteen volumes)."--Cf. Clark.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has v. 1, 4, 6-9 wanting.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has autograph of Minnie Wellington Stanwood, April 21, 1887.

Cited in:

Clark, C.E.F. Nathaniel Hawthorne, a descriptive bibliography, p. 363

OCLC:

37106558