Hardcover
1890 · London
by Gozzi, Count Carlo; Translated Into English by John Addington Symonda
London: John C. Nimmo, 1890. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Limited and Numbered Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited to 780 copies: 520 for England and 260 for America, this is copy #121. Bound in the publisher's original quarter calf over green buckram boards, with the armorial crest of Count Gozzi tooled in gilt front boards. Top edges gilt, lovely blue floral decorative end papers, ribbon markers. "With portrait and six original etchings by Adolph LaLauze, and eleven subjects illustrating Italian comedy by Maurice Sand, engraved on copper by A. Manceau, and colored by hand." Very Good Plus, calf a bit rubbed, an attractive set in the original binding..
(Inventory #: 008168)