Various Authors.

Homes of American Authors; comprising Anecdotical [sic], Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, of various writers.

New-York. D. Appleton & Company. 1857. 8vo, viii, 374; engraved title (dated 1854), 20 engraved plates, 15 woodcut vignettes, of which nine are finely coloured, and 16 facsimiles of authors' manuscripts in contemporary half brown calf, gilt ruled raised bands, full gilt decorations in the panels, black leather label, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, some wear on the top edge of the spine and some slight wear on the board edges, back hinge re-inforced, attractive armorial bookplate. (Bks). Item #40356

cf Sabin 32741 & BAL 1345 for first edition of 1853. The work contains information on the major American authors of the day, including Audubon, Paulding, Bryant, Irving, Bancroft, Dana, Prescott, Sedgwick, Cooper, Everett, Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Webster, Lowell, &c.

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