Rime e Lettere.

  • Colonna, Vittoria
  • Firenze [Florence]: G. Barbèra, Editore 1860

£95

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Description

24mo, pp. xlvi, 462, [2] + frontispiece. Original vellum, fore-edge extensions, boards bordered with double gilt rules and decorated with tessellating lozenge pattern in gilt, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, edges gilt. Binding somewhat soiled. Gift inscription to flyleaf: ‘Isabella L. Grant from Miss Sealy, Rome, April 30th 1877,’ pencil ownership inscription of H. Sellers dated 1940.

Notes

An attractive, pocket edition of the poetry and letters of 16th-century Italian noblewoman Vittoria Colonna, Marchioness of Pescara (1492-1547).

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