While copies are seen with as few as a single photograph, or as many as over one hundred, the illustrations usually number approximately sixty. The elaborate vellum binding was favoured by Italian binders who bound and marketed the edition for the tourist trade copies often differ with half-titles usually lacking, as here, and the number of illustrations varying this copy is especially well illustrated. 'The novel, a useful guide to Rome, is the Tauchnitz book most often found extensively extra-illustrated with photographs and bound in elaborately decorated vellum' (Todd & Bowden).
Ģ vols, 12mo, pp.I: xii, 292, II: vi, 280,, with 99 albumen print photographs (49 in each volume, plus frontispiece portrait after a painting) without half-titles as often several photographic plates after art, sculpture, engraving all edges gilt in contemporary vellum over boards, gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers bookplate of George Henderson to upper pastedowns.First edition thus, extra-illustrated with ninety-nine albumen print photographs. Preceded by the first English edition, although Blanck notes that â The Boston and the London publishers attempted to publish simultaneously, Ticknor & Fields setting their edition from advance sheets of the London editionâ ¦ Contemporary notices indicate that the London edition was issued prior to the Boston edition but simultaneous publication may have occurred.â. After resigning his post he traveled to Rome, and his experiences there served as the inspiration for The Marble Faun, published in England as The Transformation or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Nathaniel Hawthorne, â long recognized as one of the greatest of American writers,â first journeyed to Europe in 1853 as American Consul in Liverpool (Drabble, 443). Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
In fine condition, from the library of noted book collector Henry Walker Bagley with his bookplate.
First edition, first issue, with 16-page catalog dated March, 1860 inserted at rear of Volume one of Hawthorneâ s last major work of fiction.
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