Transformation: Or The Romance of Monte Beni (Two volumes)
by: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hardcover. Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A very handsome edition of The Marble Faun, otherwise known as Transformation: Or The Romance of Monte Beni. The work was written on the eve of the American Civil War and is set in Italy. The work combines gothic literature, travel guides and fables. Two matching volumes, 292 + 280 pages. Title page states 1860. Bound in full vellum with leather ties, gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered parchment. Copyright Edition stated on title page of each volume and Printing Office of the Publisher on page 292 of volume one. twenty-six albumen photographic plates of contemporary Rome to 'Volume One' and twenty three to 'Volume Two'. Covers splayed as is common with this edition. Clean copies.