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

Our Old Home

1891

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

Photogravures

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

PH1979:0602.01

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

imprinted and dated

Royaume-Uni

• architecture

• 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