THE STORY OF A PUPPET, OR THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO

Collodi, Carlo. Illustrated by Mazzanti, Enrico

Verlag: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892

Beschreibung

First English edition. Translated from the Italian by Mary Alice Murray. Published by T. Fisher Unwin 1892, in light grey decorated cloth, titles in blue, small 8vo. End papers and all text block edges decorated to match. Illustrated with a tissue guarded frontispiece and drawings throughout the text by Enrico Mazzanti, misprinted as C. Mazzanti on the title page, a first issue point. Illustrated half title, title page printed in red and black. Cloth lightly toned, corners lightly bumped, internally clean and bright,some occasional cracking. Owned by the same family for three generations, gift inscriptions to this effect to the front free end paper. The story was first issued in magazine instalments in the Giornale dei bambini (Rome, 7 July 1881), Pinocchio was first published in book form in 1883 as Le Avventure di Pinocchio: storia di un burattino, and quickly became a best-seller, though Collodi (real name Carlo Lorenzini) died in 1890 before witnessing its international success. "Almost nothing else in children's literature equals Pinocchio for wildness of invention" (Carpenter & Prichard, Oxford Companion to Children's Literature). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 099

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THE STORY OF A PUPPET, OR THE ADVENTURES OF ...

Verlag: T. Fisher Unwin

Erscheinungsdatum: 1892

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition