Our Old Home

People:

A.W. Elson & Co. (photoengravers)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (author)

Title:

Our Old Home

Date:

1891

Description:

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He started writing seriously in 1846 and spent the years 1853 to 1857 in England as the American Consul in Liverpool. The collection of essays that constitute 'Our Old Home' comes from the journals he kept during his stay in England. After spending two years in Italy he returned to the United States and completed his final novel, 'The Marble Faun' and 'Our Old Home'. This 279-page book comprises 16 photogravures.

Title page:
Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne annotated with passages from the author's note-book, and illustrated with photogravures. Volume I. Cambridge printed at the Riverside Press MDCCCXCI.

Verso of title page:
Copyright,1863, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Copyright, 1870, by Sophia Hawthorne
Copyright, 1883, 1890, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
All rights reserved.
Two hundred and fifty copies printed.
No. 69

Contents and list of illustations:
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Frontispiece

CONSULAR EXPERIENCES
A Street in Leamington
Warwick Castle and the Country around
A Devonshire Farmhouse

ABOUT WARWICK
Arched Bridge over the Avon, showing Warwick Castle
Leicester Hospital and West Gate, Warwick

RECOLLECTING OF A GIFTED WOMAN
A Country Lane
The room in which Shakespeare was born
Delia Bacon
Charlecote Hall

LICHFIELD AND UTTOXETER
Lichfield Cathedral from the West
Statue of Dr. Johnson, St. Mary's Square, Lichfield

PILGRIMAGE TO OLD BOSTON
Lincoln Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral and Bishop's Palace
Roman Arch, Lincoln
St. Botolph's Tower, Old Boston

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Technique and media:

Photogravures

Dimensions:

compositions (min.): 7,3 x 12,2 cm compositions (max.): 7,5 x 13,1 cm sheets (min.): 11 x 8,1 cm sheets (max.): 9,4 x 14,3 cm book: 20,1 x 13,5 x 3,5 cm pages: 19,6 x 12,5 cm

Reference number:

PH1979:0602.01

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Greyish beige paper covered coverboards with gilt decorations on coverboards and spine, gilt lettering on spine, cream coloured pages.

Inscription:

imprinted and dated

Location:

United Kingdom

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

trees
river
doors
chimneys (architectural elements)
houses
windows
gate
fireplace
chair
bas-reliefs
steps
brick paving
hat
man
roofs
shutters
towers (building divisions)
hall
statue
hospital
bridge (built work)
buildings
façades
lampposts
staircase
fences
streets
woman
castle
pond
stone wall
room
church towers
paths
arches
armchair
table
portals
balustrade
cathedrals
religious buildings
ceiling
portraits
pedestal
arched entrance
farmhouse
open space
bust
lane (road)
posts
pinnacles
sidewalks
grilles (barrier elements)
wheelbarrow
vines
grass (plant)
tympana
stained glass (material) window
sculptures (visual works)
river-banks
male figure (representation)
wooden flooring

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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