The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper: Autograph Edition with Manuscript Page.

Octavo, 33 volumes. Bound in original 3/4 green morocco over marbled linen boards with silk ribbon markers. Top edge gilt and gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Hand-colored steel engraved frontispieces and additional engravings on Japon vellum. This edition consists of only 63 sets, of which this is number 49. A hand-written manuscript page from chapter 9 of Oak Openings is bound into The Spy. Included in the set are: Precaution ((1820), The Spy (1821), The Pioneers (1823), The Pilot (1823), Lionel Lincoln (1825), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prarie (1827), The Red Rover (1828), The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (1829), The Water-Witch (1830), The Bravo (1831), The Heidenmauer (1832), The Headsman (1833), The Monikins (1835), Homeward Bound (1838), Home as Found (1835), The Pathfinder (1840), Mercedes of Castile (1840), The Deerslayer (1841), The Two Admirals (1842), The Wing-and-Wing (1842), Wyandotte (1843), Afloat and Ashore (1844), Miles Wallingford (1844), Satanstoe (1845), The Chainbearer (1845), The Redskins (1846), The Crater (1847), Jack Tier (1848), The Oak Openings (1848), The Sea Lions (1849), The Ways of the Hour (1850) and Ned Myers, a biography (1843). The volumes are in fine condition. An exemplary set.