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The scarlet letter : a romance / By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Women--Massachusetts--Fiction.
- Women.
- Massachusetts.
- Puritans--Fiction.
- Puritans.
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Advertisements -- United States -- Boston -- 19th century.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Smith, C. Ross (donor)
- Davis, S. M. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- iv, 322 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.
- Notes:
- Publisher's list (4 p., dated March 1, 1850) inserted at front.
- Title-page in black and red-orange.
- "Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, Printers to the University."--T.p. verso.
- "The 1st edition has the word reduplicate in line 20 on p. 21." The 2d edition, 1850, has the word repudiate--Cf. Browne, Bibl. of Hawthorne.
- Local Notes:
- In slipcase.
- Culture Class Collection copy housed in slipcase.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of S.M. Davis, Glenwood
- Cited in:
- BAL, 7600.
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 1147
- Browne, Nina. Bibl. of Nathaniel Hawthorne, p. 62.
- OCLC:
- 895170
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