Book ID: 28109 Elegia Inglese di Tommaso Gray Sopra un Cimitero Campestre Trasportata in Verso Italiano da Giuseppi Torello Veronese. THOMAS GRAY.
Elegia Inglese di Tommaso Gray Sopra un Cimitero Campestre Trasportata in Verso Italiano da Giuseppi Torello Veronese.

The Bodoni Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard in Original Wrappers

Elegia Inglese di Tommaso Gray Sopra un Cimitero Campestre Trasportata in Verso Italiano da Giuseppi Torello Veronese.

Place and Imprint: Parma: Nel Regel Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793.
Edition: First Bodoni edition.
Bibliographical References: Brooks, Bodoni, 485; Northup 545; ESTC T71250.
Condition: Spine and edges skillfully repaired; some light foxing and small stains, mostly in the margins; very good example of a rare, untrimmed copy in original state. Enclosed in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase.
Book ID: 28109

Physical Description

4to, original plain pink wrappers, stitched as issued, remains of a small printed paper label on the spine, untrimmed.

Comments

An attractive edition of Gray's famous Elegy with Giuseppe Torelli's Italian translation juxtaposed with the original English, preceded by a dedicatory sonnet by the printer Biambatista Bodoni to Signora Contessa Elisabetta Caterina Mosconi.

Price: $850.00