THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES A Romance With An Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks

LIMITED EDITION, Being one of 1500 hand-numbered copies SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, Valenti Angelo. With illustrations in colour by Valenti Angelo, being 21 oval pictorial headings to each chapter, as well as drawings on the titlepage and colophon. Large 8vo, in the publisher's original marbled paper-covered boards backed in black leather, the spine lettered in silver, in the original slipcase of silver paper-covered boards, the back with a black paper label lettered in silver. xviii, 413, [1] pp. Very fine, the book is pristine and essentially as mint, there is just a touch of wear to the slipcase.

Edizione: the fine limited editions club special edition of one of hawthorne's most popular books and a central classics of nineteenth-century american literature, and arguably the quintessential of american gothic. the house of the seven gables is a pillar of american renaissance literature, and was a major influence on later authors of both the horror and mystery genres, in fact it continues to be influential even today.<br> edmund b. thompson printed this work for the l.e.c. at hawthorn house in windham connecticut. thompson began his career with william edwin rudge in the 1920s. in 1929 he joined peter beilenson as a partner in the walpole printing office (new rochelle) but in 1932, suffering from poor health, he moved to the quiet of windham, where he set up hawthorn house. there he and his wife set type by hand, printing for the l.e.c. and others, as well as publishing his own works such as 'a printer's common-place book.'<br> valenti angelo illustrated several works for the l.e.c. his style is especially well suited to the moody gothic themes of the house of the seven gables.