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Transformation, or, The romance of Monte Beni / by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Accession number
PML 145033-34
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Published
Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Preface dated Leamington, December 15, 1859.
Originally published in 3 vols. at London by Smith, Elder and company, 1860, under title: Transformation: or, The romance of Monte Beni; and in 2 vols. simultaneously at Boston, by Ticknor and Fields, under title: The marble faun: or, The romance of Monte-Beni.
Library's copy lacks series t.p.
"The novel [i.e. The marble faun], as a useful guide to Rome, is the Tauchnitz book most often found extensively extra-illustrated with photographs and bound in elaborately decorated vellum ... Regrettably Italian binders in this process habitaully deleted half-titles and thus denied their volumes entry into the present record ..."--W.B. Todd, p. 128.
Description
2 v. (xii, 292; vi, 280 p.) ; 16 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Vellum tooled in gilt.
Classification
Department