BIB_ID
103908
Accession number
MA 573
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1852 May.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (207 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
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.
On title page, below "The Blithedale Romance," an original title "Hollingsworth: a Romance" was crossed out by Hawthorne.
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.
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.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
With title page, table of contents, preface, and text.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27.3 cm)
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