Cantus Hibernici from Hawthorne's library, the Wakeman copy

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Lot 320 | Cantus Hibernici from Hawthorne's library, the Wakeman copy
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[NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S COPY] MOORE, Thomas (1779-1852) and Nicholas Lee TORRE, translator. [Irish Melodies.] Cantus Hibernici. New edition. Leamington: Thomas Knibb, 1856.

Hawthorne's personal copy of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, with his ownership signature to front endpaper. From the library of Stephen H. Wakeman. Hawthorne has inscribed this copy on the front endpaper: "Nath. Hawthorne, Liverpool, May 12th 1856." At this time he was serving as the United States Consul in Liverpool. The present book was lot 419 in the storied Wakeman sale of American literature, with his bookplate to the front pastedown.

Quarto (221 x 140mm). (A little foxing internally). Original cloth, title gilt-stamped to upper cover (spine faded and neatly repaired, a little spotting to covers); modern slipcase. Provenance: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, 1804-1894 – Stephen H. Wakeman (bookplate, his sale, American Art Association, 28 & 29 April 1924, lot 419).

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