My Prisons (I Mie Prigioni) and Francesca Da Rimini, A Tragedy in Five Acts (Translated by Florence Kendrich Cooper)

My Prisons (I Mie Prigioni) and Francesca Da Rimini, A Tragedy in Five Acts (Translated by Florence Kendrich Cooper), 1906. The National Alumni.

8vo.(6" x 9") Full navy calf with elaborate decoration of Vatican Coat of Arms to upper cover, rear similar in blindstamp. Spine with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, others deckled. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips, head and foot of spine chipped with small loss (see pic), upper hinge chipped in several places. Prior owners' return address label to front pastedown, Asian lettering and stamp to first free endpaper. Engraved half-title in red and black with tipped-in illustration. Illustrated with hand colored photogravure frontispiece and two additional illustrations within the text, all tissue guarded.

Silvio Pellico (1789–1854) was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist, and patriot best known for his autobiographical work Le mie prigioni (My Prisons), which became a symbol of the Italian Risorgimento (unification movement).

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