Notes of Travel Volume I by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

With Portraits, Illustrations, and Facsimiles

In Twenty-Two Volumes

Volume XIX

Published 1900 Cambridge, Massachusetts 

Houghton, Mifflin and Company

The Riverside Press Cambridge

425 pages. Text in English.

Old Manse Edition

Publishers Morocco half Leather Binding. Spine is beautifully gilt decorated and stamped with five raised bands. Top edge is gilt. Cloth covered boards with gilt leather corners. Marbled endpapers. Some minor rubbing to front and rear joints.

Six illustrations which include black and white engraved plates signed by the artists.

Nice typography, nice paper. Deckled edges, some remain unseparated. Very small Macdonald-N.Y stamped to upper left corner of first flyleaf. This could be provenance of ownership or printership. 

The book has been well cared for and is in fine condition. At 123 years of age, it is clean, tight, and sound. The book is attractive on a shelf and displays a pleasing and unique age patina. Minor shelf wear, though present, is forgivable and easy to overlook.

Book Measures 7 ¾ x 5 ¼ x 1 ? inches