The marble faun, or, The romance of Monte Beni
By: by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Contributors: James R. Osgood and Company
Publisher: James R. Osgood and Company
Published: 1876
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Women art students; Murder; Americans; Artists; Nobility; Fiction
Other titles: Marble faun; Romance of Monte Beni
Notes: Title printed in red and black.

Preface dated Leamington, December 15, 1859.

Published simultaneously in London, in 3 vols., by Smith, Elder, and company, under title: Transformation, or, The romance of Monte Beni.

"The ms. of 'The marble faun' is in a private collection in England, and, in fact, was never in this country, as the American edition was set up from proof-sheets of the English edition ..."-Cf. Cathcart, W.H. Bibl. of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cleveland, 1905.

Library's copy is extra-illustrated with albumen prints

Gift of Gloria and Stanley Fishfader.

Binding: cloth boards; half leather; spine with gilt title; edges stained red; inscribed by Mary D. Beardsley on p. preceding t.p.