The Marble Faun: Or, the Romance of Monte Beni.

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Creator

Nathanial Hawthorne.

Title

The Marble Faun: Or, the Romance of Monte Beni.

Coverage

2 vols. Boston:

Publisher

Ticknor and Fields,

Date

1860.

Subject

Gift of the American Antiquarian Society via the good offices of Vincent Golden.

Description

In his study of the Boston-based publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields (founded in 1854), RBS faculty member Michael Winship describes how the firm established a signature binding style, as typified in this 1860 copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Marble Faun. In the late 1840s, Ticknor and Fields began to issue most of its general trade books in a distinctive brown cloth covered binding, decorated with an “elaborate four-lobed arabesque design blind-stamped at the center of the sides and sober gold-stamped lettering on the spine in panels of blind-stamped double rule.”

Source

From the collection of Rare Book School