Early 20th Century Illustrated Small Octavo Leather Volume Set, the Novels, Stories, Sketches and Poems of Thomas Nelson Page - 18 Books

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The Novels, Stories, Sketches and Poems of Thomas Nelson Page.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906, Plantation Edition. 18 volume … Read more The Novels, Stories, Sketches and Poems of Thomas Nelson Page.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906, Plantation Edition. 18 volume set. Small 8vo; 6871 pp. Fine binding in half burgundy calf, gilt spines, apparent damp stained, VIII bumped crown with a few slight chips, matched marble boards leaf edge and endpapers, gilt upper leaf edges, illustrated with (55) tissue guarded color plates and (9) maps. Good.

Thomas Nelson Page was one of the best-known writers of his day. He served as Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to Italy, and the president referred to him as a "national ornament."

In her effort to control the image of slavery and Civil War in the American mind, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy form 1911 to 1916, urged that "no library should be without...all of Thomas Nelson Page's books."

Modern historian David W. Blight call it "America's national tragedy" that American memory was informed by the "romantic fantasies" of writers like Page and Joel Chandler Harris, while the authentic memories of former slaves were largely forgotten. (Wiki) See less