Transformation: Or, the Romance of Monte Beni

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

$250 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

Leizpig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. 16mo 16cm . Two volumes in Florentine vellum with black leather onlays and gilt tooling to fronts and spines, titled in blue paint on front boards, all edges gilt; brown, white, and gilt patterned endpapers; iii -xii,292pp; iii -vi,280pp; 29 albumen prints laid down on inserted leaves. Contemporary bookseller's ticket of Giulio Giannini, Florence. Bookplates of Marlboro College Library, covering

• Binding: Leather

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