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Our Old Home, the Newton copy, inscribed
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1863
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
The fine Newton copy of Our Old Home, inscribed by Hawthorne on the front endpaper: "Dr Gason 12 via della Mercede." Dr John Gason, Fellow of the College of Physicians in Ireland, is listed at Via della Mercede in various guidebooks from the 1850s-60s. The 1869 Handbook of Rome and its Environs notes that "Dr G, who is also an accoucheur, practises during the summer months at the baths of Lucca." The Hawthornes and Dr Gason would have overlapped in Rome in the late 1850s, and possibly had mutual friends from Bagni di Lucca. The present copy is the second printing, with p. 399 blank. BAL 7626; Clark A24.
Octavo (183 x 112mm). Half-title, 22 pp. of adverts at rear dated November 1863. Original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine (lightly ; modern slipcase. Provenance: Dr John Gason, d.1861, Enniskerry, County Wicklow (authorial inscription) – A. Edward Newton (bookplate) – Kevin B. MacDonnell.