Accession number
PML 129939-41
Creator
Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873.
Published
Pisa : Niccolo Capurro, 1828.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2007.
Notes
First English edition, translated by Charles Swan.
This set printed on thick paper, cornermarked PM.
This set printed on thick paper, cornermarked PM.
Description
3 v. ; 21 cm. (12mo)
Provenance
Inscribed by the translator on 30 April 1829 to the travel writer James Emerson (who changed his name in 1832 to James Emerson Tennent). The set remained in the family library at Tempo Manor in County Fermanagh until the contents of the manor were sold at auction in 2004 by the order of Dowager Lady Marion Langham.
Binding
Half brown morocco and marbled boards.
Classification
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