Ca. 1913

A Wonder Book

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

With Coloured Illustrations by H. Granville Fell

First Edition Thus ~ Rare Antique Book ~ Exquisite Art Nouveau Decorative-Cloth Publisher’s Binding ~ Embossed Gold Gilt Stamping ~ Color Plates ~ Classic Myth and Legend ~ Dragons ~ Monsters ~ Magic ~ Supernatural ~ Occult ~ Gorgons ~ Minotaurs ~ Mythology ~ Pegasus ~ Medusa ~ Chimera

Publisher:

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited / New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, no date, circa 1913.

The Temple Press, Letchworth.

Features:

First Edition Thus (no statement of edition and no additional printings listed on the copyright page).

Tales from Many Lands Told to the Children series.

Measures 7.1 x 5.3 inches.

Original decorative-cloth publisher’s binding: Blue cloth with embossed gold-gilt stamping and a mounted color plate.

Vignette title page.

Illustrated with eight full-page color plates including the frontispiece.

127 pages.

Condition:

Very Good.

The covers are clean and bright with moderate fading to the spine cloth and darkening to the spine gilt, mild angling of the spine, minor scuffing to the spine corners, and a slightly bumped bottom corner. The textblock is solid and square. The pages are very clean and bright with some light foxing or spotting. Closed tear to the inner edge of one plate. No writing or marking.