Transformation: or, the Romance of Monte Beni [The Marble Faun].
THE PEABODY WOMEN REMEMBER HAWTHORNE.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Transformation: or, the Romance of Monte Beni. Copyright edition. In two volumes. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860.
2 vols., 12mo.; extra-illustrated; lightly foxed; marbled endpapers; red edge-stain; cream paper covered boards, stamped in gilt; lightly soiled. Copyright edition.
A Hawthorne family extra-illustrated two volume set of the Tauchnitz edition of The Marble Faun, purchased in Rome by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody in 1868 and given to her sister, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, after Nathaniel's death. Elizabeth began to write her sister's maiden name-Peabody-in the inscription, and then overwrote it: Sophia Amelia [P] Hawthorne / from her Sister Elizabeth / who illustrated it for her in Rome -- / May 1868. A labor of love: Elizabeth added about 15 photographic illustrations throughout, each mounted on a heavier paper stock, and had them specially bound in to the text with cream paper-covered boards with a triple rule stamped in gilt on the covers and spines, and with the spine further stamped, simply, “The Marble Faun / 1” and “The Marble Faun/2."
Sophia has made notes throughout:
Volume I
p. 5, Sophia's hand in pencil suggesting “rests upon his hips,” in lieu of “hangs carelessly by his side.
p. 34, pencil lines in margins
p. 78, pencil tick to one line in margin
p. 142, pencil tick to one line in margin
p. 180, photo partially shaded in
p. 181, satin ribbon book mark
Volume II
Table of Contents, added in ink, “Sodoma's Christ—123,” indicating where a description of that work appears
p.26, pencil, suggesting “hitherto" instead of "therefore"
p. 255, ink, changing proposed to him let him blood” to “proposed to him to let blood.”
For a similar set, see Clark's Nathaniel Hawthorne at Auction, p. 371, #442.
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