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Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers. Illustrated with Views of Their Residences from Original Drawings, and a Fac-simile of the Manuscript of Each Author.
Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers. Illustrated with Views of Their Residences from Original Drawings, and a Fac-simile of the Manuscript of Each Author.
Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers. Illustrated with Views of Their Residences from Original Drawings, and a Fac-simile of the Manuscript of Each Author.
Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers. Illustrated with Views of Their Residences from Original Drawings, and a Fac-simile of the Manuscript of Each Author.

Homes of American Authors; Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers. Illustrated with Views of Their Residences from Original Drawings, and a Fac-simile of the Manuscript of Each Author.

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viii, 366, [1] pp. Original brown leather, gilt titles, five raised spine bands with stamped decorations in compartments, debossed design and borders on boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece and plates, two-color engravings of several homes protected by tissue guards at head of some chapters. A biographical tour of literary America, including chapters on John James Audubon; Washington Irving; Richard Henry Dana; William H. Prescott; James Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Daniel Webster; James Russell Lowell; and more.