[Rarebooks] FS: Coleridge family copy of THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI, #8 of 210 copies

[Charles Agvent]

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GOZZI,    Count    Carlo.    SYMONDS,   John   Addington
   (translator).  THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI. London: John
   C. Nimmo  1890.  First  Edition.  Two  large  octavo  volumes
   (6-3/4"  x  10-1/2") in original red and  green  cloth-backed
   boards  with  elaborate gilt-decorated shields on  the  front
   cover of  each.  Babington  50. The Large Paper  issue,  this
   being #8  of  210 copies illustrated with a portrait and  six
   original  etchings  by Adolphe Lalauze (in duplicate in  this
   issue)  and  eleven  plates depicting  figures  from  Italian
   comedy  by Maurice Sand, engraved on copper by A. Manceau and
   colored  by  hand. With essays by the translator  on  Italian
   impromptu  comedy,  Gozzi's  life, the Dramatic  Fables,  and
   Pietro  Longhi. JOHN DUKE COLERIDGE's copy with his signature
   dated 1889  on  a  front  blank of the  first  volume.  Baron
   Coleridge,  the  great  nephew of  Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge,
   served  as  Attorney General (1871), Chief Justice of  Common
   Pleas (1873-1880),   and  Chief  Justice   of  Queen's  Bench
   (1880-1894).  Both  volumes with deteriorated  spines  neatly
   covered  some  time  ago  with  smooth  binder's  cloth  tape
   allowing  the  books  to be used. But for the  taped  spines,
   nice copies.                                          $150.00

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