Raccolta Di Ventisei Novelle

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Firenze Paolo Fumagalli 1838 Di Mad. A. Tastu, Emilio Deschamps, De Chateaubriand, La Principessa De Craon, Paolo L. Jacob Bibliofilo, E. Fouinet, Rastoin, Avenel, M.E. Théaulon, Alissan De Chazet, T. Muret, Mad. Luisa Colet, Filippo Busoni, Guilio De Saint-Felix, P. De Julvécourt, Mad. A. Dupin, Stefano De La Madeleine, Visconte Walsh, Rolle, Alfonso Harr, Lassailly, De Tremont, Conte Alfredo De Vigny, Augusto Barbier. Prima Traduzione dal Francese di Filippo Moisè. 26 engraved plates. 8vo. [230 x 150 x 30 mm]. [1]f, 229, [3] pp. Bound in contemporary green goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a double fillet and large feather roll border enclosing three fillets inter-connecting with a lozenge-shaped panel composed of fillets and a floral roll and a circular centrepiece of radiating leafy stems. The spine divided into five panels, lettered in the second, the others tooled in gilt each to a different design, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt rolls, pink endleaves, gilt edges, pink silk marker. (Two small worm holes at the foot of the spine). A collection of 26 stories, a number of them with a British theme. The engravings are by British engravers (F. Bacon, E. Radclyffe, R. Branard, J. Goodyear, J. Thomson, J. C. Edwards, T. Higham, J. Cousen, L. Stocks, J. C. Armytage, C. Heath, J. Lewis, R. Wallis, S. Fisher, J. Appleton and H. Robinson) after various artists (Miss L. Sharpe, G. Catermole, F. P. Stephanoff, A. E. Chalon, A. G. Vickers, J.R. Herbert, C. Stanfield, A. Cooper and C. Aubrey) and were printed by Berthiau. They retain their original tissue guards, and there is a little light foxing. It is a very handsome copy. The binding is probably Florentine and is flamboyant. Ink inscription crossed away on front fly-leaf.

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