[PUBLISHER'S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [WHITMAN, Sarah Wyman, designer]. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, the Riverside Press, 1899.
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[PUBLISHER'S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [WHITMAN, Sarah Wyman, designer]. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, the Riverside Press, 1899.
2 volumes, 8vo. Titles printed in red and black, illustrated. Publisher's gilt-decorated ivory cloth after a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman, top edge gilt, others uncut (spines very slightly darkened, a few tiny stains).
The "Roman Edition." A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF WHITMAN'S ICONIC ART NOUVEAU DESIGN.
From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
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