Author: MANZONI, ALESSANDRO
Title: The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) (Everyman's Library #999)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1959. Hardcover. A 1959 reprint of the 1956 Everyman's Library edition of Alessandro Manzoni's magnum opus: set in Northern Italy while under the repression of Spain and the Austrian Empire, as well as the Plague. Originally published in 1827, this work has been described as ".the most famous and most widely-read novel in the Italian language." Titled "I Promessi Sposi" in Italian, this version translated into English with an introduction by Archibald Colquhoun. Also with author's introduction. Entry 999 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. In green dust jacket with Molteni portrait of the author to front panel. --- A clean, well-preserved, tightly-bound copy though with prior owner's signature & large inked 'P' to front free endpaper. Dust jacket with chafing to spine ends & slight darkening to spine, else intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxvi, 536, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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