Graziella by A. de LaMartine NONESUCH PRESS 1929
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Graziella by A. de LaMartine NONESUCH PRESS LIMITED EDITION 1929
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 934 of 1600
Translated by Ralph Wright.
Pochoir coloured frontispiece, 10 integrated monochrome illustrations, 19 tinted integrated illustrations by Jacquier.
Illustrations in colour have been stencilled by The Curwen Press.
Heading decorations..
Printed on Arches paper by Robert MacLehose and Co.
Ragged lower page edges.
Bound in cream red and green pattern decorated cloth
Printed paper title label on spine.
Top page edge gilt.
Plain endpapers.
No introduction.
Colophon page at back of book.
No slipcase or dust-jacket as issued.
190 pages
20.7x12.8cm.
A$37
A beautiful little book that was received with pages uncut, indicating that it was unread after more than 90 years. Pages cut by using a plastic playing card.
A rather mawkish and over-sentimental love story, set mainly in Naples in about 1850, in which a young French man becomes involved with a local fisher-girl.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 934 of 1600
Translated by Ralph Wright.
Pochoir coloured frontispiece, 10 integrated monochrome illustrations, 19 tinted integrated illustrations by Jacquier.
Illustrations in colour have been stencilled by The Curwen Press.
Heading decorations..
Printed on Arches paper by Robert MacLehose and Co.
Ragged lower page edges.
Bound in cream red and green pattern decorated cloth
Printed paper title label on spine.
Top page edge gilt.
Plain endpapers.
No introduction.
Colophon page at back of book.
No slipcase or dust-jacket as issued.
190 pages
20.7x12.8cm.
A$37
A beautiful little book that was received with pages uncut, indicating that it was unread after more than 90 years. Pages cut by using a plastic playing card.
A rather mawkish and over-sentimental love story, set mainly in Naples in about 1850, in which a young French man becomes involved with a local fisher-girl.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
2whytewolf1
Lovely! Thanks for sharing!
3Glacierman
It is rather a nice little book, isn't it? Yes, I have one.
