RIENZI The Last of the Tribunes

3 volumes. First Edition, RARE in original printer's boards. With the half-titles present. 8vo, original printer's gray pressed paper boards, with original printed paper labels on the spines. xiii, 302; 364; 356, [4 ads] pp. Rare in the publisher's original boards. The text very fresh through, near to completely free of foxing and age, one volume with a small amount of margin worming not effecting any text, the bindings solid but with expected mellowing to the paper boards.

Edizione: rare in printer's boards, this set is in full contemporary state. published only one year after what is largely considered the author's masterpiece, the last days of pompeii. rienzi is an historical novel based on nicholas gabrini de rienzi, who, from a low and despicable situation, raised himself to sovereign authority in rome, in the fourteenth century; assuming the title of tribune, and proposing to restore the ancient free republic. it is considered one of the best researched of the popular historical novels which so captivited the public of that era. a spectacular story of one of the heroes of the italian renaissance, edward bulwer-lytton personally reworked it into the 1842 libretto for the opera by the same title in which he collaborated with richard wagner.