sewn stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket
1956 · Florence
by Dainotti, V[irginie] Carini
Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1956. sewn stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. small 8vo. sewn stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. xi, 208, (4) pages, with 8 additional pages of plates. Volume 1. Difficult early years of the Biblioteca Nazionale, from the idea of a national library in the decade following unification, the organization of monastic holdings into the "Vittorio Emanuele" and subsequent mismanagement thereof, to the official Inquest of 1880-81 and its aftermath. Partially unopened. Dust jacket soiled, chipped. (Inventory #: 51298)