Author: MANZONI, ALESSANDRO; ELIOT, CHARLES W. (EDITOR)
Title: I Promessi Sposi (the Betrothed) (the Harvard Classics Series)
Description: New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394603036. An English-language reprint edition of Alessandro Manzoni's magnum opus: set in Northern Italy while under the repression of Spain and the Austrian Empire, as well as the Plague. This edition contains the full text of the novel, which was originally published in three volumes in 1827 and has been described as ".the most famous and most widely-read novel in the Italian language." Translated into English by an unattributed translator, and with an unattributed introduction. With tissue-guarded sepia frontis portrait of the author, as well as a handful of tissue-guarded illustrations. An entry in the series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- A deluxe, rather scarce version of the Harvard Classics series, as published by P. F. Collier. In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 668 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature
Title: I Promessi Sposi (the Betrothed) (the Harvard Classics Series)
Description: New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394603036. An English-language reprint edition of Alessandro Manzoni's magnum opus: set in Northern Italy while under the repression of Spain and the Austrian Empire, as well as the Plague. This edition contains the full text of the novel, which was originally published in three volumes in 1827 and has been described as ".the most famous and most widely-read novel in the Italian language." Translated into English by an unattributed translator, and with an unattributed introduction. With tissue-guarded sepia frontis portrait of the author, as well as a handful of tissue-guarded illustrations. An entry in the series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- A deluxe, rather scarce version of the Harvard Classics series, as published by P. F. Collier. In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 668 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature
Price: US$ 26.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86500
- Book number: 86500