Accession number
PML 145031-32
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Published
Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title on spines: The marble faun.
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.
"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 ..."--W.B. Todd, p. 128.
"Confusion has resulted from the Tauchnitz practice of preserving the 1860 title page unchanged through at least four editions and an untold number of printings extending well into the twentieth century ... Also distributed with special attention to the tourist trade in Italy ... customers could purchase ready-made copies embellished by photographs of the scenes Hawthorne described, select from large offerings of loose photographs and have them bound to order, or provide their own photographs for preparing a personal copy. ..."--Clark, C.E. Frazer, p. 253-254.
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.
"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 ..."--W.B. Todd, p. 128.
"Confusion has resulted from the Tauchnitz practice of preserving the 1860 title page unchanged through at least four editions and an untold number of printings extending well into the twentieth century ... Also distributed with special attention to the tourist trade in Italy ... customers could purchase ready-made copies embellished by photographs of the scenes Hawthorne described, select from large offerings of loose photographs and have them bound to order, or provide their own photographs for preparing a personal copy. ..."--Clark, C.E. Frazer, p. 253-254.
Description
2 v. (xii, 292; vi, 280 p.) ; 17 cm.
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf of former owner, Harding B. Rieffestahl; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 vellum.
Classification
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