Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1891.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fifteen volumes (complete), 8vo., bound in three quarter plush red morocco lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. Standard Library edition, one of 500 copies, profusely illustrated with etchings and steel engravings. Clark B13 ---- From the library of Richard Watson Gilder, with his bookplate on the free endpaper of volume one. An accomplished poet, Gilder was the longtime editor of Century Magazine, which published many of Hawthorne's contemporaries as well as his posthumous manuscript notes for Doctor Grimshawe's Secret. A gorgeous set with a distinguished provenance.

Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.