Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.

Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.

Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.

Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes.

Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.

Expertly rebacked, with some very slight rubbing to extremities, tight, solid and handsome. Internally generally quite clean and bright, some faint scattered foxing, marginal repair to last leaf of text. State A of Volume II (sequence of states not determined) with “a Book” in the fifth line of the copyright notice. First issue, with page 89 misnumbered 93, Chapter XVI numbered XIV in Volume I (page 243), and page vii correctly numbered (in some copies it is numbered “vi” BAL states that “examination suggests that the folio was correctly set and the ‘i’ may have dropped out during the printing,” the sequence of states has not been established). “The real triumph of Cooper is the variety of his invention, the power with which, isolating his few characters in the wilderness, he contrives to fill their existences, at least for the time being, with enough actions, desires, fears, victories, defeats, sentiments, thoughts to make the barren frontier seem a splendid stage” (DAB). “This is the most famous of the Leatherstocking Tales, and the first in which the scout Natty Bumppo was made the symbol of all that was wise, heroic and romantic in the lives and characters of the white men who made the American wilderness their home… The novel glorified for many generations of readers, in England, France, Russia, and at home, some aspects of American life that were unique to our cultural history” (Grolier American 100 34). One of the highlights of early American literature. Scarce first edition, first issue, of Cooper’s classic tale in handsome contemporary tree calf. Housed in a custom chemise and half morocco slipcase.

Octavo, contemporary full tree sheep sympathetically rebacked, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, red and green morocco spine labels. By the Author of “The Pioneers.” Philadelphia: H.C.

The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757. “HOW ALL HIS PAGES GLOW WITH CREATIVE FIRE!”: RARE FIRST ISSUE OFCOOPER’S CLASSIC THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS IN CONTEMPORARY TREE CALFĬOOPER, James Fenimore.

Last of the mohicans 1st edition