Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. The Extra-Illustrated Autograph Edition. In twenty-two volumes. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this is number 52, signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop and the publisher. Photogravure frontispieces, vignette titles, and plates, all on India paper mounted, from photographs and from drawings Anna Whelan Betts, Jessie Willcox Smith, Alice Barber Stephens, Howard Pyle, and others. Extra-illustrated with many plates in two states. Frontispiece in each volume signed by the artist. Descriptive tissue guards. Engraved frontispiece portrait on India paper mounted in Nathaniel Hawthorne. With a general introduction by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop and introductory and bibliographical notes by H.E. Scudder. 3/4 red leather with marbled boards and end papers, gilt top paper edge. Spine with five raised bands and decorated compartments with gilt tooling and lettering.
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