Our Old Home

People:

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

Title:

Our Old Home

Date:

1891

Description:

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 594-page book comprises 14 photogravures, one engraving, a Title page and a Contents and list of illustrations and Index :

Title page:
Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne annotated with passages from the author's note-book, and illustrated with photogravures
Volume II. 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 Illustrations:

[Photogravures executed by A.W. Elson & Co. Boston]

Lord Nelson Frontispiece

NEAR OXFORD
Blenheim
The Thames at Oxford from Folly Bridge
Magdalen College, Oxford, from the Cherwell
SOME OF THE HAUNTS OF BURNS
Robert Burns
Burn's Birthplace, Alloway Parish, near Ayr
The Auld Brig o' Doon, Ayr
Alloway Kirk

A LONDON SUBURB
A Country House
The Houses of Parliament

UP THE THAMES
London Bridge
Tower of London, showing Traitor's Gate
St. Paul's Cathedral
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey

OUTSIDE GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH POVERTY
An English Almshouse

CIVIC BANQUETS

Index

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Technique and media:

Photogravures

Dimensions:

album: 20,2 x 13,5 x 3,8 cm compositions (min.): 10 x 7,6 cm compositions (max.): 7,6 x 12,8 cm sheets (min.): 12 x 8,7 cm sheets (max.): 9,3 x 14,1 cm secondary supports: 19,6 x 12,6 cm

Reference number:

PH1979:0602.02

Point of View:

external views
interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

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

Inscription:

imprinted and dated

Location:

England United Kingdom

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

gardens
trees
people
fountain
doors
house
windows
statues
rivers
towers (building divisions)
bridges (built works)
tombs
buildings
cemetery
church towers
churches
cathedral
bell tower
pediments
clock towers
balustrade
boats
portraits
religious buildings
sailboat
college
busts
pinnacles
parliament buildings
vines
grass (plant)
university buildings
Corinthian (architectural style) columns (architectural elements)
Corinthian (architectural style) pilasters
engraving (print)
sculptures (visual works)
river-banks
horse-drawn carriage
male figure (representation)
domed building
gate tower

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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