Oeuvres de J. F. Cooper

Composite edition combining seven volumes from the very first collected edition with others from various reissues published between 1836 and 1852. Volumes 15 to 30 (1839–1852) each include an engraved title with a vignette and two steel engravings; the earlier editions, covering volumes 1 to 15 (1830–1836), were unillustrated.

Half polished calf bindings in Restoration style. Smooth spines decorated with a central panel richly gilt in grotesque design, gilt and blind-tooled rolls at head and tail, and gilt fillets. Small tear to the headcaps of volumes 5 and 9. Volumes 25 and 26 show some surface loss to the leather on the boards.

A handsome set.

The novels of Fenimore Cooper—and particularly the Leather-Stocking Tales (The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie)—form an unparalleled chronicle of eighteenth-century early America.