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Vita di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti
by Vittorio Alfieri
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Firenze : Leonardo Ciardetti, 1822. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. Posthumous autobiography by celebrated Italian dramatist Vittorio Alfieri da Asti, in the original Italian. This autobiography constitutes Vittorio Alfieri's most notable prose work. Originally published posthumously in 1806 (falsely dated 1804), it is celebrated for its passion, its strong sense of morality and tragic details, almost resembling a novel, with interesting historical remarks of eighteenth century Italy. Two volumes bound in one, complete with half titles and frontispiece to each volume. Vittorio Alfieri was a prominent Italian dramatist, considered founder of Italian tragedy. He authored nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, and the present autobiography. Rebound in half calf binding over marbled boards. Externally sound with minor shelf wear, chipped to head and tail of spine, boards and spine rubbed. Minor tidemark to upper inner gutter to the first part of vol. I, not affecting text. Internally, firmly bound. Minor light spotting scattered to leaves. Good
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- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 823A76
- Title
- Vita di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti
- Author
- Vittorio Alfieri
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Leonardo Ciardetti
- Place of Publication
- Firenze
- Date Published
- 1822
- Size
- 8.5" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- vittorio alfieri autobiography italian drama autobiography
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Marbled boards
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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