THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE SERIES [series title]

New York: Printed for William R. Scott, Publisher, by the Powgen Press, 1936. Six volumes. Octavo. Cloth. Variously illustrated. Ownership signature in four volumes, some darkening at gutters of endsheets, a couple of small marginal spots in one volume, otherwise a nice set, in very good or better dust jackets, enclosed in publishers board chemise and slipcase. First editions in this format, with occasionally interesting illustrations (though those most interesting and distinctly modernist in tone are at odd counterpoint to their texts). The texts are: a) COMPENSATION. By Emerson, with designs by C. Barney Moore; b) LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE. By Thoreau, with illustrations by Susanne Suba; c) LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE. By Hawthorne, with illustrations by Jean Lamont; d) SONG OF MYSELF. By Whitman, with decorations by Jos. A. Low; e) A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM. By Poe, with illustrations by Charles E. McCurdy; and f) THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. By Irving, with drawings by Mary Dana. (Inventory #: WRCLIT54257)