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Homes of American Authors ; comprising anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches / by various writers.
LIBRA - Rare PS141 .H6 1855
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American.
- Literary landmarks--United States.
- Literary landmarks.
- United States--Intellectural life.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 374, [2] pages, [19] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- [New-York] : John E. Trow, Printer and Stereotypes,
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : D. Appleton & Company, M.DCCC.LV. [1855].
- Contents:
- John James Audubon.
- James K. Paulding
- Washington Irving
- William Cullen Bryant
- George Bancroft
- Richard Henry Dana
- William H. Prescott
- Miss C. M. Sedgwick
- J. Fenimore Cooper
- Edward Everett
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Gilmore Simms
- Henry W. Longfellow
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Daniel Webster
- John Pendleton Kennedy
- James Russell Lowell
- Fitz-Greene Halleck.
- Notes:
- Added engraved title page with imprint 1854; part of the illustrations are colored.
- "Illustrated with views of their residences from original drawings, and fac-similes of their manuscripts."--Title page.
- "Contributors. Geo. W.M. Curtis ("The Howadji"), Henry T. Tuckerman, George Washington Greene, Charles F. Briggs, George S. Hilliard, William C. Bryant, G. W. Peck, Rufus W. Griswold, Parke Godwin, Edward E. Hale, Mrs. C. M. Kirkland"
- Contains steel-engraved plates, hand-colored wood vignettes of residences and manuscript facsimiles.showing samples of author's actual handwriting.
- Local Notes:
- PS141.H6 1855: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by the Gerald Weales Estate has brown leather bound boards, five raised band spine stamped in gilt, embossed design on front cover and marbled endpapers; all edges gilt stained. Copy has penciled autograph of "E. B. Gardner" on page [1].
- OCLC:
- 863165852
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