Quarto. [8], 99pp, [3]. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, later rebacked partially preserving contemporary backstrip. Rubbed. Later inked ownership of 'Geo: Gibson' to FFEP, very occasional light spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Doto dall autore al Rev. Sigr. Crozier'.

A rare survival of the sole edition of an Italian language essay, printed at Corfu, on the history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to that of William the Conqueror. The book, dedicated in English to Frederick Ponsonby, Lord High Commissioner in the Ionian Islands, is the second published work of Geronimo Padovani, of whom little is known, the first being a Greek Language English grammar (Corfu, 1824), the third and final a panegyric occasioned by the death of Count Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776-1831), the first Governor of the Independent Greece, issued in 1832.

OCLC and COPAC together record copies at just five locations (BL, Cambridge, NLS, Toronto, and SBB).