The Italian Novelists Now First Translated into English by W.G. Waters. Choicely Illustrated by E.R. Hughes and Jules Garnier. In Seven Volumes. Royal Court Edition. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION.

WATERS, W.G.:

Published by London, Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles, 1901 LTD Ed. (1/26.(A))

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Seven Volumes. Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. Dark blue morocco leather fine bindings, with decorative gilt paneled boards, raised banding and gilt decor to spines. With brown leather spine labels. Marbled and blue silk endpapers. Full-gilt page edges. In very good near fine conditions. Some slight fading and marks to spines, some minor rubbing to corners of boards. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Plates all with titled tissue guards. Bookplates to front endpapers ?Charles Cobb Walker.? Embossed stamps to corner of main title pages ?New England Conservatory of Music Library.? Else an excellent Ltd Edition set. 7 volumes: Illustrated by E.R. Hughes and Jules Garnier, with Duplicate set of Illustrations; Water Colours and Japanese Proofs. With Water-Colour Frontispieces on Satin. Vols 1-4: The Facetious Nights of (Giovanni Francesco) Straparola. Vols 5-7: The Pecorone of Sergiovanni.

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• Title: The Italian Novelists Now First Translated into English by W.G. Waters. Choicely Illustrated by E.R. Hughes and Jules Garnier. In Seven Volumes. Royal Court Edition. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION.
• Publisher: London, Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles, 1901 LTD Ed. (1/26.(A))
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