memoirs count essays von symonds john addington carlo gozzi (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, large 8vo, 2 vols, 3.6Kg, xvi,371;(vi),379pp, portrait and six etchings (two impressions of each) by Adolphe Lalauze, plus 11 copper-engraved hand-coloured plates by A. Manceau, light foxing on edges and prelims, owner's name and inscription on front endpaper of each volume, hinges and bindings sound, brown cloth with gilt crest on front boards, spine title labels browned, boards slightly marked, v.1 torn with some loss at base of spine; Good condition.

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].