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Title

Tanglewood

Tales

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

 [SIGNED Numbered Limited Edition – Publisher’s Half Vellum Binding]

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Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

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Year of Publication

[1918]

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Publisher

London: Hodder & Stoughton

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Description:

London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1918], SIGNED, Numbered Limited Edition.

 

Half vellum binding with gilt titled and decorated spine, light blue paper boards and vellum quarters and spine.

Internally tanned, with 14 tipped in colourful plates by Dulac.

First edition, signed, numbered limited edition issue. Number 288 of 500 copies, printed on large handmade paper and signed by the artist.

[xii], 245pp.

 

Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates.

Approximately 11 ½ inches tall.

 

Condition Report

Externally

  • Spine – good condition – gilt titles and gilt pictorial decoration, rubbed and worn.
  • Joints – good condition – rubbed and worn.
  • Corners – good condition – bumped and worn.
  • Boards – good condition – half vellum and blue boards.
  • Page edges – good condition – darkened gilt top edge, others tanned and untrimmed.
  • See above and photos.

Internally

  • Hinges – good condition – sound.
  • Paste downs – good condition – heavily tanned, pictorial paper.
  • End papers – good condition – heavily tanned, pictorial paper.
  • Title – good condition – tanned.
  • Pages – good condition – tanned and very minor foxing.
  • Binding – good condition – original publisher’s half vellum.
  • See photos.

Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: [1918]
Binding: Hardback

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