Essays of American Essayists Including Biographical and Critical Sketches

Starkweather, Chauncey C., special introduction

Published by The Colonial Press, New York, 1900

About this Item

First Thus (revised edition). Green ribbed silk binding, decorative gilt spine, t.e.g. Frontispiece photogravure plus three additional illustrations, each with captioned tissue. 456 pp. Includes a wide selection of essays from Benjamin Franklin, William Ellery Channing, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, William Cullen Bryant, William Hickling Prescott, George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Lothrop Motley, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Francis Parkman, and George William Curtis. Generous margins, readable type, and good paper make this an enjoyable book for reading. Minimal library markings, in very good condition.

Seller Inventory # 006480

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Essays of American Essayists Including Biographical and Critical Sketches
• Publisher: The Colonial Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1900
• Binding: Silk
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Rare Literature and Fiction