[Rarebooks] FS: First British Edition of THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, 1826

[Charles Agvent]

[COOPER, James Fenimore]. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS; A NARRATIVE OF 1757. 
London: John Miller, 1826. First British Edition. Published about a 
month after the Philadelphia edition of the same year. Three duodecimo 
(4-1/2" x 7-1/2") volumes bound in recent 3/4 reddish-brown morocco with 
five raised bands, gilt lettering on the spine, marbled endpapers, top 
edge trimmed; [12], 287; [2], 276; [2], 295 pages. With the half titles 
present in the second and third volumes, as issued and usually found 
lacking. BAL 3833; Grolier One Hundred Influential American Books, 34: 
"This is the ... most famous of the Leatherstocking Tales, and the first 
in which the scout Natty Bumppo was made the symbol of all that was 
wise, heroic and romantic in the lives and characters of the white men 
who made the American wilderness their home.... This novel glorified for 
many generations of readers, in England, France, Russia, and at home, 
some aspects of American life that were unique to our cultural history"; 
Johnson: High Spots of American Literature, pp. 24-25; Spiller & 
Blackburn 7. Fine, fresh copy, complete but for the blank endpapers, in 
a Fine, handsome binding. (#016419)        $3,500.00

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