COOPER'S
LEATHER-STOCKING NOVELS.
“The enduring monuments of Fenimore Cooper are
his works. While the
love of country continues to prevail, his memory will exist in the hearts
of
the people. So truly patriotic and American throughout, they should find
a place in every American's library.”
—Daniel Webster.
A NEW AND
SPLENDIDLY-ILLUSTRATED POPULAR EDITION
OF
FENIMORE COOPER'S
WORLD-FAMOUS
Leather-Stocking Romances.
D. Appleton & Co. announce that they have
commenced the publication of J.
Fenimore Cooper's Novels, in a form designed for general popular circulation.
The
Series will begin with the famous “Leather-Stocking Tales,” five in
number, and
will be published in the following order, at intervals of about a month:
I. The Last of the Mohicans.
II. The Deerslayer.
III. The Pathfinder.
IV. The Pioneers.
V. The Prairie.
This edition of the “Leather-Stocking Tales” will be printed in
handsome octavo
volumes, from new stereotype plates, each volume superbly and fully illustrated
with
entirely new designs by the distinguished artist, F. O. C. Darley, and bound in
an
attractive paper cover. Price, 75 cents per volume.
Heretofore there has been no edition of the acknowledged head of
American
romancists suitable for general popular circulation, and hence the new issue of
these
famous novels will be welcomed by the generation of readers that have sprung
up
since Cooper departed from us. As time progresses, the character, genius,
and
value of the Cooper romances become more widely recognized; he is now
accepted
as the great classic of our American literature, and his books as the prose
epics of
our early history.
D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, New
York.
