Nathaniel Hawthorne THE MARBLE FAUN (1860, 1st Edition)

The Marble Faun
or, the Romance of Monte Beni

Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

1860, Ticknor and Fields, Boston
First edition, 3rd printing, 2 volume set, complete

Provenance : title page of each volume ink-stamped "William R. Smith / U.S. Botanic Garden / Washington, D.C.";
"In Memoriam of CROSBY STUART NOYES by William Robertson Smith" neatly pasted on front paste-down of each volume

Original publishers ornamental blind stamped brown hardcover cloth, gold-titled on spine, original brown-coated end-papers
First edition, 3rd printing; ads dated March 1860, preface precedes Contents, "on" instead of "for" p 225 line 22 of vol I.

Size: 7-1/2 x 5" Octavo (8vo).

Condition: Very good, light shelf wear to corners and edges of boards, head and tail of spine, cloth minimally rubbed and some light staining; front free end-paper of v I neatly inked "November 29th 1869" beneath a 2-1/2" long erasure of a name in the same hand (with very slight small tear to paper) (also penciled "1st ed / $ 325); pages 263-274 of v II each with a small edge nick, overall pages tight and clean

This 3rd printing of the first edition contains the "conclusion" that Hawthorne added to make the plot resolution more coherent.

Complete in two volumes .............................................................................................. $ 175.