Author: HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.
Title: Mosses from an Old Manse. [First Edition].
Description: London: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. First British edition, published in the same year as the first American edition, and most likely produced from the same sheets with fresh titles, two volumes, 8vo., pp.(iii),207;(iii),211, uncut, publisher’s decoratively blindstamped green cloth, gilt; ex Armitt Library, Ambleside, with two small plates to front paste-down endpaper of each volume, Volume I has further small pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, both volumes with light creasing to front free endpaper, foxing to edges (and, therefore, to margins), foxing to prelims and closing leaves, with occasional spots to text, toning to titles, slight uniform fading to spines (gilt bright), with just a little bruising to edges of Volume II, a very good set.

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