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Compositions in Outline from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, 1804–1864)
Illustrated by: Felix Octavius Carr Darley (American, 1822–1888)
Publisher: Houghton, Osgood & Company (1879–1881)
Printer: Riverside Press (American, founded in 1852)
Illustrated by: Felix Octavius Carr Darley (American, 1822–1888)
Publisher: Houghton, Osgood & Company (1879–1881)
Printer: Riverside Press (American, founded in 1852)
1879
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 12 heliotypes
Dimensions
Overall: 43.1 x 55.6 x 2 cm (16 15/16 x 21 7/8 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Accession NumberBR181
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Company, 1879
Description(Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Company, 1879) 43.1 cm; [16 ff.] 12 plates; publisher's original half black morocco, red- and black-printed gray paper boards.
First edition with these illustrations; publication date assigned from copyright on title page. This copy agrees in format size with other descriptions of the first edition; MFA owns an edition datable to 1880 in smaller format and with imprint of Houghton, Mifflin (1982.351). The illustrations are printed by the Heliotype Printing Co. after Darley's pen drawings.
First edition with these illustrations; publication date assigned from copyright on title page. This copy agrees in format size with other descriptions of the first edition; MFA owns an edition datable to 1880 in smaller format and with imprint of Houghton, Mifflin (1982.351). The illustrations are printed by the Heliotype Printing Co. after Darley's pen drawings.
ProvenanceAnonymous Gift