Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 23 Vols.

[Hawthorne, Nathaniel]. THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. (Title is from printed series titles. Title as it appears on India Proof titles: THE WRITINGS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.) 23 Vols, including biography by George E. Woodbury. Bos: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900-1901, biography 1902. 8vo. Later half green morocco and marbled board, marbled eps, teg, fore and tail edges uncut. Sunning around spines, bindings very good plus to near fine. Marginal tear to Vol I's title. A very small number of India proofs’ backings have minor foxing (not affecting their illustrations). Plates and texts otherwise near fine. First 22 volumes’ frontises are in 2 states: Color and b/w, the latter signed by its artist. Artists’ signatures include Anna Whelan Betts, Emlen M’Connell, Sarah S. Stilwell, Jessie Wilcox Smith (Vol IV), Mary Ayer, Eric Pape, Maude Cowles, B. West Clinedinst, Alice Barber Stephens (Vols IX-X), E. C. Pinxotto, Frank T. Merrill, Howard Pyle, A. I. Keller, Frederick McCormick, F. C. Yohn, Albert Herter, Harry Fenn, Childe Hassam (Vol XIX), Edmund F. Garrett (Vol XX), Jules Guerin (Vol XXI), and Ross Turner. Except for the color state of the frontises, the 2 facsimile documents (in Vol XVII), and the biography’s frontis, all the plates are mounted. Total of 161 plates (including the 22 vignette series titles, each of 2 states of the 22 frontises, and the biography’s single frontis). Autograph Edition, #68 of 500 signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop on Vol I’s limitation leaf. BAL 7645.