Record ID:
103908
Accession number:
MA 573
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description:
1 item (207 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes:
Written on the rectos and one verso of 200 leaves, numbered 1-201 by Hawthorne, and with signed title page, Table of Contents (2 p.), and Preface (3 p.) preceding the text.
On title page, below "The Blithedale Romance," an original title "Hollingsworth: a Romance" was crossed out by Hawthorne.
As noted by Hawthorne in the Preface (dated Concord, May, 1852), "the author does not wish to deny that he had [Brook Farm] in mind, and that ... he has occasionally availed himself of his actual reminisces" in writing the Blithedale Romance.
Summary:
With title page, table of contents, preface, and text.
Housed in:
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27.3 cm)
Binding:
Black half leather over brown cloth covered boards. Lettered "W.D.T." in gilt at foot of spine.
Provenance:
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
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