CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835–1910). The Writings of… Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1899–1907.
25 volumes, 8vo. Engraved titles on india paper designed by Tiffany & Co. and etched by W.H.W. Bicknell, NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS, 18 OF WHICH ARE SIGNED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE ARTIST, including: Karl Gerhardt, Peter Newell, Charles N. Flagg, A.B. Frost, E.W. Kemble (the artist who illustrated the frontispiece and other illustrations in the first editions of Huckleberry Finn and also in Puddin’Head Wilson), Dan Beard, et al. In the Huckleberry Finn volume, Karl Gerhardt who designed the marble bust of Twain that appears in the first edition, signs the frontispiece also of a bust of Twain designed by the artist. Original subscriber’s crushed olive morocco gilt, marbled sides, 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt–lettering in two, gilt centerpieces in others, top edges gilt, others uncut, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers (spines uniformly sunned).
LIMITED EDITION, number 233 of 512 copies of the “Autograph Edition” for subscribers SIGNED BY MARK TWAIN and additionally signed by Charles Dudley Warner in Volume X (The Gilded Age) on the limitation. Warner was a friend of Mark Twain with whom he co–authored this novel with.
THE RAREST AND MOST DESIRABLE OF ALL THE TWAIN SETS. BAL 3456.