GEORGE MEREDITH'S COPY
Nuove poesie di giosue carducci (enotrio romano).
In Bologna.
Presso Nicola Zanichelli, 1875.
Seconda edizione.
8vo.
[2], xlii, 205pp, [1]. Portrait frontispiece (reproduced from a woodcut) of the author.Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Slight rubbing to extremities, corners, else a near fine copy. Inked ownership inscription of George Meredith to upper wrapper, which with the other preliminaries is slightly discoloured.
Novelist and poet George Meredith's (1828-1909) copy of the second edition of Italian poet and critic Giosue Carducci's (1835-1907) Nuove poesie, first published in 1873.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 25395
