Carlo count gozzi (15 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Calaf. A rejected drama [in five acts. A translation into English prose of Gozzi's Turandot, with a preface signed Chrysalia].br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Gozzi, Carlo Count; br/b/b 1826.br/b/b 8º.br/b/b 11779.bb.50.br/.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, John C. Nimmo, 1890. Small quarto, two volumes, [ii], xvi, 371 and [vi], 379 pages plus a frontispiece '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' (and most charming they are too). Later gilt-decorated half calf and cloth (by Birdsall), top edges gilt, others uncut; leather very slightly rubbed at the extremities, with the bottom 60 mm of the front joint of the second volume cracked (but still very firm); cloth a little foxed; slight foxing to the uncut edges, marbled endpapers, flyleaves, first and last pages (and very rarely to a margin elsewhere); a few trifling glue and paper residue marks on the pastedowns of the second volume; gilt-armorial cloth from the original front covers and the (heavily sunned) original spines are mounted and bound in at the rear of each volume; an excellent set. Number 135 of only 520 sets printed for England (with a further 260 sets for America). 'I flatter myself that readers will be found to appreciate the brilliant, though prolix and desultry, portraiture of life in Venice during the last century which these "useless memoirs" offer to their imagination' (translator's preface). Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) was an Italian (Venetian) playwright and champion of 'traditional Italian comedic performance: the Commedia dell'arte' (Wikipedia). Provenance: J.R. McGregor, with his Adrian Feint-designed bookplate in each volume. Sir James Robert McGregor (1889-1973) was a wealthy woolbroker whose 'wealth, good taste and knowledge of art enabled him to build an outstanding collection of sculptures and paintings . In 1929-58 he served as a trustee of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). [2 items].…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited edition. One of two hundred and sixty copies printed for America. Two volume set attractively rebound in three quarter leather decorated with gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Translated into English by John Addington Symonds. Original etchings by Adolphe Lalauze. Page foredges unopened, loss of the bottom corners of quite a few pages in volume two not affecting the text, edges and corners are a bit worn, else very good to near fine.…