Portrait plaques of American authors

The collection consists of a set of five bronze portrait plaques issued by the Grolier Club between 1892 and 1911 to commemorate American authors. The authors include: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1892, modeled by Désiré Ringel d'Illzach, 17.2 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 173 copies in bronze and 3 in silvered bronze); James Russell Lowell (1896, modeled by Charles Calverley, 17.5 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 372 copies in bronze and 3 in silvered bronze); Edgar Allan Poe (1909, modeled by Edith Woodman Burroughs, 18 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 277 in bronze and 3 in silver); Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909, modeled by Victor D. Brenner, 18.5 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 300 copies in bronze and 3 in silver); and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1911, modeled by John F. Flanagan, 19 x 14.5 cm., issued in an edition of 300 copies in bronze and 3 in silver). There are two copies each of the Emerson and Longfellow plaques, and one copy each of the Hawthorne, Lowell, and Poe plaques