Author: ROLFE, FREDERICK ("BARON CORVO")
Title: Don Renato: An Ideal Content: A Historical Romance (Edited and with an Introduction by Cecil Woolf)
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. 1st Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. First, Limited Edition (No. 148 of only 200 copies, only 185 of which were for sale). Publisher's full white cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and intricate purple decoration on cover (designed by Corvo), top edge purple. Illustrated with frontispiece collotype reproduction of a page from Baron Corvo's working notes. Edited, with an Introduction by Cecil Woolf. "Don Renato," Rolfe's earliest surviving novel, was intended for publication in 1909, but was supressed before publication and only five advance copies survive. This is, therefore, the first published edition, and uses the author's original cover design on the upper board. A trade edition immediately followed this deluxe limited edition. [Woolf A8c].. This volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. The volume, now in Mylar, is in its original gold slipcase, which is in very good condition. AS NEW. Collotype Reproduction. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 344 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Literature; Romance; Novels; Baron Corvo; Limited Edition; Novels, Poetry & Literature Romance Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
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Title: Don Renato: An Ideal Content: A Historical Romance (Edited and with an Introduction by Cecil Woolf)
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. 1st Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. First, Limited Edition (No. 148 of only 200 copies, only 185 of which were for sale). Publisher's full white cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and intricate purple decoration on cover (designed by Corvo), top edge purple. Illustrated with frontispiece collotype reproduction of a page from Baron Corvo's working notes. Edited, with an Introduction by Cecil Woolf. "Don Renato," Rolfe's earliest surviving novel, was intended for publication in 1909, but was supressed before publication and only five advance copies survive. This is, therefore, the first published edition, and uses the author's original cover design on the upper board. A trade edition immediately followed this deluxe limited edition. [Woolf A8c].. This volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. The volume, now in Mylar, is in its original gold slipcase, which is in very good condition. AS NEW. Collotype Reproduction. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (x), 344 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Literature; Romance; Novels; Baron Corvo; Limited Edition; Novels, Poetry & Literature Romance Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
Price: US$ 275.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 19427
- Book number: 19427
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