Preface dated Leamington, December 15, 1859. Published simultaneously in London, in 3v., 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."--Cathcart, Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cleveland, 1905.