HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel:. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne With Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop. And Illustrated with Etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw and Turner. Complete in Twelve Volumes. ?The Riverside Edition.?. London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1883, 1883.

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Description: 12 volumes. Fine Binding. Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In quarter-bound leather fine bindings by ?Douglas & Foulis, Edinburgh.? Polished black morocco leather to spines and corners with marbled paper to boards, raised banding to spines, with gilt lettering and blind embossed paneled decorations, blind embossed details to leather on boards. Marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. In very good conditions. Some minor rubbing to edges corners with some bumps and small chips, nearly all top ends of spines are thinly chipped. some minor rubbing to boards. Binders labels to edges of front endpapers. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Plates all clean and bright, all tissue guarded. No fixing or spots. Else a very good clean and tight set. 12 vols. Each illustrated with a B&W engraved frontis plate and a title-page vignette. Etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw and Turner. Complete in 12 Volumes.

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