"Hawthorne's Works" Antique Globe Edition
Item Details
A large antique collection of ’Hawthorne’s Works’ published by Houghton Mifflin Co. of Boston . This set includes ‘American Notebooks and English Notebooks’ published in 1870, ‘Twice Told Tales’ published in 1879, ‘The Scarlet Letter’ published in 1880, ‘Our Old Home, Septimus Felton, Fanshawe, Dollivers Romance’ published in 1878 and ‘French and Italian Notebooks, The Marble Faun’ published in 1871. Each edition is bound in green cloth with pretty embossed lettering and design to front featuring title, publisher and ‘Globe Edition’ and gilt embossed lettering to the side. Each book has an engraved plate to the frontispiece. Sewn binding, inscribed in pencil on end paper and title page by previous owner.
Condition
- wear consistent with age, some end papers are loose and paper shows toning. bumping to edges with some wear to cloth on spines
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Item #
14CIN260-256