2. New York, D.Appleton & Company, 1857, in-8°, 21 x 15 cm, 374 pp, ed. blindstamped full-morocco, edges gilt. (some rubbings) with engraved title-page and 20 steel-engravings + 15 wood-engravings in the text and with 16 fac-similes of manuscripts. (with clear old damp stains only affecting the engraved plates.( Cooper, Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne a.o.. The contributors are G.Curtis, H.Tuckerman, G.Greene, C.Briggs, G.Hillard, W.Bryant, P.Godwin a.o.).