Binding, Fine) Tragedie di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti; con una notizia intorno agli autografi delle tragedie conservati nella mediceo-laurenziana, ed alle prime e principali edizioni di Esse

Firenze: Successori Le Monnier, 1866. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Two volumes, with the bookplates of Louis Dyer, Sunbury Lodge, Oxford front paste downs. Louis Dyer (1851-1908) was an American educator and autho and was a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. Two volumes bound in contemporary unsigned full vellum, covers with double gilt rules bordering gilt tooled emblems of Oxoniensis Academia (Fronts) and Coll deBal Oxon (rear covers), the backs with two red morocco labels and intricate gilt tooled decorations, marbled end papers, edges dyed yellow. Overall a thoroughly delightful Oxford binding. Very Good Plus, the vellum lightly soiled, scattered toning to end papers. interior text clean and bright. Frontispiece portrait engraving and fold-out chart Vol. I. A rather SCARCE edition, text in Italian.. (Inventory #: 008181)