A partial set of Hawthorne’s Works in three half-leather volumes. A gorgeous set with decorative spines and gilt decoration. Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York. Copyright 1902. Titles include The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni; Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance; The Dolliver Romance Fanshawe, and Septimius Felton with an appendix containing The Ancestral Footstep. . There is some wear on the leather particularly on the cover corners. Each book has under-board exposed on the corner and the leather is rubbed. The back cover corner of Dolliver has quite a bit of upper board exposed at the corner. The marbled endpapers are beautiful. The pages are soft and white with mild toning in the margin of Dolliver. The last page of Marble Faun is uncut. Size: 7", 528 + 374 + 521 pages.
A partial set of Hawthorne’s Works in three half-leather volumes. A gorgeous set with decorative spines and gilt decoration. Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York. Copyright 1902. Titles include The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni; Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance; The Dolliver Romance Fanshawe, and Septimius Felton with an appendix containing The Ancestral Footstep. . There is some wear on the leather particularly on the cover corners. Each book has under-board exposed on the corner and the leather is rubbed. The back cover corner of Dolliver has quite a bit of upper board exposed at the corner. The marbled endpapers are beautiful. The pages are soft and white with mild toning in the margin of Dolliver. The last page of Marble Faun is uncut. Size: 7", 528 + 374 + 521 pages.
