STORIES FROM THE PENTAMERONE [Edition de Luxe]

Giambattista Basile | Illustrated by Warwick Goble

London: Macmillan and Co, 1911.


Illustrated by: Warwick Goble. Quarto. Vellum Binding. Limited Edition, one of 150 copies. Full vellum Limited Edition with a neat vellum reback with original backstrip laid down; boards and backstrip are a scuffed and soiled; new silk ties and endpapers; 32 colored plates with printed tissue guards tipped onto heavy wove paper; all the plates are quite bright and sharp but for 2 that each have a light crease on the bottom left corner; the text pages are occasionally and lightly foxed; despite its flaws this is a stately edition and the first edition illustrated by Goble;.

Good+ binding.
Item #257809

Price: $950.00