I Promessi Sposi. Storia Milanese del Secolo XVII.
by MANZONI, Alessandro
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Baudry, Paris., 1827. Third Baudry edition. Published in the same year as the first Milan edition. Small octavo. Three volumes: pp [vi], 303; [vi], 319; [vi], 362. Period French binding of full calf elaborately decorated in gilt and in blind, raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. The most celebrated of Italian novels was an immediate success with no fewer than nine editions appearing from as many publishers in the first year of publication. A number of these were piracies. It was translated into English a year later. This Italian language Paris edition was reprinted several times. Contemporary (1828) ownership signature on the first blank of each volume. Covers and prelims affected by damp at lower edge. The lower margins of the first forty pages of Vol. III have been similarly affected. An attractive set nevertheless.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MANZONIA022139
- Title
- I Promessi Sposi. Storia Milanese del Secolo XVII.
- Author
- MANZONI, Alessandro
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Baudry, Paris.
- Date Published
- 1827
- Keywords
- italian
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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