THE STORY OF A PUPPET or The Adventures of Pinocchio. by COLLODI, C. Translated by M. A. Murray. Illustrated by C. Mazzanti.:

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE IN ENGLISH 1892, DE LUXE CLOTH GILT, fourth title in Fisher Unwin's Children's Library series, small 8vo approximately 166 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, illustrated half-title printed red and black, frontispiece misplaced following title page, title page printed red and black, about 40 black and white text illustrations by Mazzanti, mostly as pictorial head- and tailpieces, pages: (6), 1-232, bound in the original publisher's de luxe binding: fine ribbed dark green cloth, bevelled edges to covers, gilt title to upper cover with small floral ornament in lower outer corner, gilt title to spine with large gilt floral decoration below it, top edges gilt, the others uncut, light brown patterned cream endpapers. Gilt on spine slightly dull, a touch of wear to head of spine, 2 small almost invisible stains to upper cover, free endpapers lightly browned, neat inscription dated 1899 and small blind original bookseller's stamp on front endpaper, very small pale mark to 4 margins, 1 inner joint slightly cracked, binding tight and firm. A very good clean copy (frontispiece misplaced as noted). The story was first published in Italy in instalments in Il Giornale dei Bambini, a children's magazine, from July 7, 1881 to January 1883 and first published in book form in Florence in 1883. This de luxe cloth gilt edition is quite scarce, much more commonly found is the blue patterned white cloth trade edition. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.