STORIES FROM THE PENTAMERONE [Edition de Luxe]

  • Vellum Binding
  • London: Macmillan and Co, 1911
By Giambattista Basile | Illustrated by Warwick Goble
London: Macmillan and Co, 1911. Limited Edition, one of 150 copies. Vellum Binding. Good+ binding. Warwick Goble. Full vellum Limited Edition with a neat vellum reback with original backstrip laid down; boards and backstrip are a scuffed and soiled; new silk ties and endpapers; 32 colored plates with printed tissue guards tipped onto heavy wove paper; all the plates are quite bright and sharp but for 2 that each have a light crease on the bottom left corner; the text pages are occasionally and lightly foxed; despite its flaws this is a stately edition and the first edition illustrated by Goble;. Good+ binding.

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