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THE LITERATURE OF ITALY!
From 1265 - 1907!
FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING!
This is the RARE Renaissance Edition!
Limited to ONLY 500 COPIES of which this is set #21.
EACH VOLUME WITH IT'S OWN UNIQUE TOOLED BINDING!!
Being a facsimile of an original binding on display at the Vatican!!
Bound in full, tooled leather bindings!
These bindings are exceptionally intricate, see the pictures...!
Ornate gilded bindings and highly decorative covers and spines!
Illustrated with full page plates, many finished in COLOR!!
Top edge gilded.
Rag style paper.
Wide margins.
Printed on high quality paper.
9 1/8''.
Large heavy books!!
Complete in 16-volumes, as stated on the limitation page.
1907.
Printed in English.
Edited by Rossiter Johnson and Dora Knolton Ranous. With a General Introduction by William Michael Rossetti. And Special Introductions by James, Cardinal Gibbons, Charles Eliot Norton, S.G.W. Benjamin, William S. Walsh, Maurice Francis Egan, and others.
Excellent condition. Leather is supple. Hinges fully attached and sound. Some general rubbing, external wear. Some spines with large chips, as shown. NEAR FINE and unread interior is particularly fresh. Bright, clean, crisp. Free of foxing. No writing or signs of previous ownership.
An extremely rare edition. The Renaissance Edition of The Literature of Italy is limited to Five Hundred copies. This set, consisting of sixteen volumes, was prepared for Thomas J. McBlain, M.D. Set #21. Original signature of The National Alumni Secretary, Rossiter Johnson. This work is issued in de luxe form only. The edition is strictly limited. Every set is registered in the name of the original purchaser.
The bindings on each volume is a facsimile of the original on exhibition among the Treasurers of the Vatican, and is here reproduced, by special permission, for the first time and is a good example of the excellence of fine Italian bindings at the time of its execution. Each volume contains a frontis protected by tissue.
Titles:
A History of Literature by Francesco Flamini.
Beatrice Cenci by Francesco Guerrazzi.
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso.
The New Life by Dante Alighieri. Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. / 100 Sonnets by Francesco Petrarch / La Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio / Poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti.
The Conquest of Rome by Matilde Serao. (Spine cracked, chipped)
An Anthology of Italian Authors From Cavalcanti to Fogazzaro. With biographical sketches.
Three Comedies by Carlo Goldoni / Three Tragedies by Vittorio Alfieri.
The Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione.
Marco Visconti by Tommaso Grossi.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. / The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella. / Essays by Ugo Foscolo / Essays by Giuseppe Mazzini / Recollections by Giuseppe Garibaldi.
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.
My Prisons and Francesca Da Rimini - A Tragedy in Five Acts by Silvio Pellico.
Damiano, The Story of a Poor Family by Giulio Carcano. Translated by William Shepard Walsh.
Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Translated by Thomas Roscoe.
The Flame by Gabriele D'Annunzio.
This would make an excellent gift and/or addition to any library. Antiquarian books make a great investment, are only going up in value, and are sure to increase the aura of any room or office!
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