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040 $aCLU$cCLU$dNYP
049 $aNYPL
100 1 $aHawthorne, Nathaniel,$d1804-1864.
245 10 $aTrue stories from history and biography /$cby Nathaniel Hawthorne.
260 $aBoston :$bTicknor, Reed, and Fields,$c1851, c1850$e(Cambridge :$fPrinted by Bowles and Houghton)
300 $a[i-vi] p., [1] leaf, 1-335, [1], [1]-4 p., [1] leaf, [4] leaves of plates :$bill. (wood engravings) ;$c17 cm.
500 $aFirst edition, only printing, probable second state; cf. Clark, cited below.
500 $aWood engravings: frontispiece and [4] plates, engraved by Roberts after drawings by Billings.
500 $aPublisher's catalog: 4 p. at end.
500 $aLast leaf blank.
500 $aDivisional title pages.
505 0 $aThe whole history of grandfather's chair : complete in three parts -- Biographical stories : Benjamin West. Sir Isaac Newton. Samuel Johnson. Oliver Cromwell. Benjamin Franklin. Queen Christina.
510 4 $aClark, Jr., C.E.F. Hawthorne (1978),$cA12.1.a2.
500 $aIn this issue the signature-mark (a*) at the foot of p. [iii] appears under and to the left of the letter "a" of the last line. cf. Grolier club, First editions ... works of Hawthorne, 1905, no. 22.
500 $aThe three parts of "The whole history of grandfather's chair" were first published Boston, 1841, as "Grandfather's chair," "Famous old people," and "Liberty tree" respectively. The "Biographical stories" were first issued separately, Boston, 1842.
651 0 $aMassachusetts$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
700 1 $aBillings, Hammatt,$d1818-1874.
852 8 $hIQC (Hawthorne, N. True stories from history and biography. 1851)
852 8 $h*KL (Hawthorne, N. True stories from history and biography)
852 8 $h8-*KL (Hawthorne, N. True stories from history and biography)
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