The Last of the Medici done into English by Harold Acton.
by ACTON, Harold (translates). DOUGLAS, Norman (introduces)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
Privately Printed for Subscribers by G. Orioli, Lungarno Corsini, Florence., 1930. First edition. Fourteen-page Introduction by Norman Douglas. Octavo. 159 pages. Frontispiece. Boards with gilt medallion on upper cover and gilt title-label on spine.Number 14 of 365 numbered copies printed on Binda hand-made paper, signed at the end of the Introduction by Douglas and at the end of the Translator's Preface by Acton.Presentation copy from Harold Acton, inscribed in the front free endpaper: ''In order to edify Bobbie and stimulate his phagocytes - affectionately Uncle Harold.'' The recipient is the art collector Robert Isaacson and it is possible that the inscription dates from the early fifties when he was romantically attached to the poet James Merrill and when the couple were in Paris at the same time as Acton. The reference to phagocytes perhaps implies that Isaacson was unwell at the time.Patch of slight fading to tail of spine. Very good indeed in good dustwrapper with three large chips.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Last of the Medici done into English by Harold Acton.
- Author
- ACTON, Harold (translates). DOUGLAS, Norman (introduces)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately Printed for Subscribers by G. Orioli, Lungarno Corsini, Florence.
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- italy
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