The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne Illustrated with Photogravures 2 Volume Set 1890 Edition with cloth dustwrappers in original Slipcase

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1890

About this Item

Illustrated edition of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, with numerous full-page photogravures with titled tissue-guards; in the 19th Century Hawthorne's romance was employed by readers as a virtual cultural guide to Rome, and many collected photographs and prints which they interleaved in the pages of the book; the publishers thus prepared the current illustrated edition which includes photogravures of fifty subjects, architectural sites, statues, paintings, etc; half white cloth with red cloth sides, gilt decorations to sides, gilt titling to spines, top edge gilt; this copy in the scarce original format, with unprinted red cloth dustwrappers, red silk bookmarks, and housed in a slipcase with titling to top side; volume i with dampstain to head of spine, vol ii with minor dampstain to tail of spine; both volumes with former owner's name to front endpaper, medium-heavy tanning to endpapers, prelims and text block, scattered foxing, some offset from plates, o.w. G-VG throughout; dustwrappers sunned and spotted to spines, o.w. Good; slipcase rubbed and scuffed, and with some worn patches. Dustwrapper. 527pp. 2 volumes 8vo. G-VG in Good dustwrappers in rubbed and scuffed slipcase G-VG in Good dustwrappers in rubbed and scuffed slipcase. Seller Inventory # 22118

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni...

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York

Publication Date: 1890

Binding: hardbound

Illustrator: b&w plates

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition