The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi de SYMONDS, John Addington - 1890

Paperback / softback. New.

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Paperback / softback. New.

John C. Nimmo. London, 1890. Limited edition, copy number 81 of 210,. 1890. Hardcover. 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 .

London: John C. Nimmo, 1890. Two volumes uniformly bound in green cloth with brown calf backstrip, coat of arms on upper boards and gilt lettering on spine, top edges gilt, dark green endpapers with gilt floral design; crown quarto. Leather has minor rubbing at ends of spines, there is a short (1/4") tear top of spine of volume 1, a nicely engraved bookplate of the singer and biographer Dorothy Moulton Mayer on verso of front free endpaper. Some pages are unopened in volume 2 along the fore edge. 520 copies printed for England, and 260 for America; this is copy no. 158. Pages: 371 and 379 (with index); with portrait and six original etchings by Adolphe Lalauze, and eleven subjects illustrating Italian comedy by Maurice Sand, engraved on copper by A. Manceau, and nicely coloured by hand. An attractive 2 volume set.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1890. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 7.5". Unamed. The limited illustrated edition of John Addington Symonds' translation of the memoirs of the Italian playwright Count Gozzi. Number 87 of 210 copies with hand coloured plates. Symonds wrote a number of biographies of writers and artists, and these often reflected his interest in the Renaissance, as in this case. He was also an early advocate of homosexuality, and despite being married to a woman, he wrote poetry inspired by his homosexual affairs. Count Gozzi was born in Venice in 1720. He had to support himself due to his father's debts, so he joined the army in Dalmatia at the age of sixteen. On his return to Venice he gained a reputation as the wittiest member of the Granelleschi Society, to which he had gained entry through the publication of a number of satirical pieces. Through the 1750s and 60s he published works in the Traditional Tuscan style, which satirised the French inspired Pietro Chiari and Carlo… Leer más