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Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. First Edition thus. Vellum"copyright edition" on title page, of Hawthorne's Italian romance cum travel guide. Two volumes in one, thick foolscap 8vo (155 x 107mm): xii,292; vi,280,[2]pp, with 24 mounted period photographs of Roman monuments, statuary, buildings, and street scenes. Contemporary vellum, spine decorated and titled ("The Marble Faun") in gilt, upper cover paneled with Roman monument on cover in gilt, marbled end papers, edges stained red. Tightly bound and clean throughout, a very good example, aside from paper separation on int and edge loss on introductory albumen of Nathanial Hawthorn. Margins of inserted leaves with photographs, which are printed on heavy coated stock. (The photographs were sold to the tourist trade and inserted by Italian binders into copies, most, as here, with half-titles removed.)
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