Description: Set of 2: Literary Shrines - The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors and Some Famous British Authors, by Theodore F. Wolfe, 1899 Set of two volumes: Literary Shrines, The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors and A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors. Wolfe, Theodore F. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1899. 11th edition. Narrative about places (homes, villages, battlefields, etc.) associated with famous American and British authors. Specific American authors include Thoreau, the Alcotts, Hawthorne, Lowell and others -- Walden, Boston, Salem cemetery, Witch Hill, Longfellow's City of the Dead, Thoreau's home. British: Dickens, Chaucer, Shakepeare, Gray, Byron, the Brontes, Burns, Voltaire and others. (Voltaire was obviously not British, so some European as well apparently) -- grave of George Eliot, Gray's churchyard, Byron's homes, Wuthering Heights, chapels, graveyards, homes and more. Each volume has several illustrations. Set of two very attractive hardcovers, half leather with elaborate gilt detailing and titles on the spines, marbled boards with matching endpapers. Very good condition with almost no signs of wear, no writing, firmly bound.
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: Theodore F. Wolfe
Publisher: Lippincott
Topic: American & British Authors
Subject: Travel
Year Printed: 1899
