[figure description] Plate: unidentified rectangular plate, with gold borders, black background, gold figure of a capital “A” in center with ornate wings extending out from its base to top, and gold circle around this capital “A” figure. This plate is affixed onto a decorative end-page, which has a pattern of pink dots and stars.[end figure description]

Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett [figure description] Bookplate: heraldry figure with a green tree on top and shield below. There is a small gray shield hanging from the branches of the tree, with three blue figures on that small shield. The tree stands on a base of gray and black intertwined bars, referred to as a wreath in heraldic terms. Below the tree is a larger shield, with a black background, and with three gray, diagonal stripes across it; these diagonal stripes are referred to as bends in heraldic terms. There are three gold leaves in line, end-to-end, down the middle of the center stripe (or bend), with green veins in the leaves. Note that the colors to which this description refers appear in some renderings of this bookplate; however, some renderings may appear instead in black, white and gray tones. This bookplate is affixed to a decorative end-page, which has a pattern of pink dots and stars.[end figure description]

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WILEY & PUTNAM'S
LIBRARY OF
AMERICAN BOOKS.—

MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE
BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
PART I.

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