1834 · Turin
by LIPOGRAMS — PIETRA-SANTA
Turin: Alessandro Fontana, 1834. 12mo (181 x 106 mm). 20, 140, [2] pages. Lithographic(?) frontispiece showing a student reading, signed C. A. Musante. Untrimmed, in original printed wrappers, ornamental borders enclosing title and vignette on front cover and the price (fr. 2.) on lower cover (outer corners of front wrapper reinforced, backstrip frayed, small tears and minor soiling). ***
First edition of an unusual didactic experiment: a series of 22 letters from a father to his beloved son, away at university, each written without one of the 22 letters of the alphabet (excluding k, w, x, and y).
This tour-de-force, the author (truncated)
First edition of an unusual didactic experiment: a series of 22 letters from a father to his beloved son, away at university, each written without one of the 22 letters of the alphabet (excluding k, w, x, and y).
This tour-de-force, the author (truncated)