The Bravo of Venice, a Romance
- SIGNED
- London: D. N. Shury, for J.F. Hughes, 1805
London: D. N. Shury, for J.F. Hughes, 1805. First Edition. Very good in later speckled calf with gilt edges and spine, marbled endpapers, minor browning to a few pages and endpapers, but generally clean and tight, housed in a marbled slipcase.. First edition of Monk Lewis's translation, from the German, of Zschokke's sensational gothic romance Abällino, der grosse Bandit, first published in 1793.
In Coleridge's view, this work exhibited the "wonder of effects produced by supernatural power, without the means," and the plot follows the adventures of a banished and starving aristocrat who seeks employment as a hired assassin.
8vo. viii, 340pp., [4, errata and ads]. Wolff 4113. NCBEL III, 743. Summers, pg. 252 (noting a few copies contain an 1804 date on the title page, this copy with 1805). Thomson, Voller, and Frank, pg. 254.
In Coleridge's view, this work exhibited the "wonder of effects produced by supernatural power, without the means," and the plot follows the adventures of a banished and starving aristocrat who seeks employment as a hired assassin.
8vo. viii, 340pp., [4, errata and ads]. Wolff 4113. NCBEL III, 743. Summers, pg. 252 (noting a few copies contain an 1804 date on the title page, this copy with 1805). Thomson, Voller, and Frank, pg. 254.