8 volumes. With introductions by Katherin Lee Bates. Frontispiece in each. Each volume with 1 or more works within, including: The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables; A Wonder Book, Tanglewood Tales; Our Old Home; Fanshawe, Grandfather's Chair, Biographical Stories; The Snow Image, The Blithedale Romance; Twice Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse; The Marble Faun. Together 8 uniformly bound octavos in dark blue half-morocco and cloth, spines gilt, top edges gilt.

"Popular Edition" as described in advertisements, but not in the volumes themselves, based on the 14 volume "Lenox Edition" issued by Crowell in 1902.