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Ulysses S. Grant’s Hawthorne Collection, Sample, 1865

A marbled book cover with leather spine and covers.|A brown leather book spine with a red field and a green field. Red field contains text: Hawthorne's Works. Green field contains text: Snow-Image.|The marbled endpages of a book with the bookplate of Ulysses S. Grant. pasted on it.

Hawthorne's Works Volume 1: The Snow-Image

A marbled book cover with leather spine and covers.|A brown leather book spine with a red field and a green field. Red field contains text: Hawthorne's Works. Green field contains text: Snow-Image.|The marbled endpages of a book with the bookplate of Ulysses S. Grant. pasted on it.

Date: 1865

Type: Book

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Description

In 1865 Hawthorne’s publishers Ticknor and Fields contributed to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant’s personal library with a 14 volume collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writings. Each book in the collection was specially bound and included a bookplate detailing the gift from the people of Boston.

Our archives contain all 14 volumes of this one-of-a-kind series; this is Volume 1.