Transformation
Subtitle: or, The romance of Monte Beni
By: by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Edition: Copyright ed.
Series: Half-title: Collection of British authors,
Publisher: B. Tauchnitz
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: eng
Subjects: Americans -- Italy -- Fiction.; Women art students -- Fiction.; Nobility -- Fiction.; Artists -- Fiction.; Murder -- Fiction.; Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Paged continuously.
Preface dated Leamington, December 15, 1859.
First 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 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, Bibl. of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cleveland, 1905.