[Rarebooks] FS: Symonds, John Addington. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi

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[Symonds, John Addington]. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi. Translated into
English... With Essays on Italian Impromptu Comedy, Gozzi's Life, the
Dramatic Fables, and Pietro Longhi. With portrait and six original etchings
by Adolphe Lalauze. Also, eleven subjects illustrating Italian Comedy by
Maurice Sand, engraved on copper by A. Manceau, and coloured by hand. In two
volumes. London: John C. Nimmo, 1890. First edition. Large octavos. xii,
371; 379pp. Index. Original quarter green-colored calf and matching cloth
over boards; backstrips and decorative devices on upper covers stamped in
gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut (and some unopened); floral endsheets. A
lovely, Near Fine set, one of five hundred twenty copies (from a total
edition of seven hundred and eighty) printed for England. BABINGTON 50.
Leather Bound. Image available upon request (26017)     $175.00

 

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