£45
FIRST EDITION, 16mo, pp. viii, 132, [4]. Original dark blue cloth, front board blocked centrally in blind, spine lettered direct in gilt, ads to front endpapers. Some spotting. Boards a little marked, spine somewhat sunned. Bookseller’s label of W. Bayman, Belvedere to pastedown, ownership inscription of A Brook dated November 1867 and modern ink stamp of W.F.E. Watts to title-page.
A scarce, pocket Italian-English Phrasebook for travellers, produced by London language specialist Franz Thimm. It reached a second edition in 1870; this copy has ads for Thimm's other publications printed up to 1863, so must be a later issue of first-printing sheets. Library Hub records just a single copy of this edition, in the BL, and a single copy of the second edition in the library at Springhill administered by the National Trust.
