Description:
Decorative Bindings, Sets, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Complete Writings, Large Paper Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Twenty-four octavo volumes, illustrated with frontispieces in two states (colored and uncolored) and other photogravures from photographs and drawings by Anna Whelan Betts, Jessie Willcox Smith, Alice Barber Stephens, Howard Pyle, and others; copy number 264 of 500 printed, bound in uniform half brown morocco, with the additional two volumes of bibliography and biography not always present, some joints cracked, some endcaps bumped, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (24)
Estimate $800-1,200
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