Authors starting with V from Stuart Bennett Rare Books

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1789. 2 vols.: xi, [i], 335, [1]; vii, [i], 329, [1]pp., 8vo. Facing title-pages and text in Italian and English; very faint old waterstain affecting some upper margins, still a fine, fresh copy. Elegantly bound by Philip Dusel in full straight-grained red morocco, covers gilt-panelled and spines fully gilt, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. First edition in English, rather grandly here published with the original Italian text on facing pages, no doubt due to the extraordinary ... more information