The Marriage at Ferrara.
The Marriage at Ferrara. | Rare and modern books | Harcourt-Smith Simon
The Marriage at Ferrara.
The Marriage at Ferrara. | Rare and modern books | Harcourt-Smith Simon
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1952
- Author
- Harcourt-Smith Simon
- Publishers
- John Murray
- Keyword
- modern firsts, novels, borgias, lucrezia borgia, italy, biography, simon harcourt-smith, modern first editions, marriage, ferrara
- Languages
- English
Description
8vo., First Edition, with a full-page map and 4 plates, some moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, uncut, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Harcourt-Smith's classic biography of Lucrezia Borgia is based entirely on the correspondence of the period and drawn from Italian archives of the sixteenth century. With a personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Uncommon in this condition.