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The Nights of Straparola / now first translated into English by W.G. Waters, illustrated by E.R. Huges ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection Folio 49.47 St8N oversize v.1 v.2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection Folio 49.47 St8N oversize v.1 v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557?
- Standardized Title:
- Piacevoli notti. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Italy.
- Tales.
- Italy.
- Fairy tales--Italy.
- Fairy tales.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes, 16 plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Lawrence and Bullen, 1894.
- Notes:
- Notes, v. 2, p. [309]-323, give "Sources, imitations and parallels" of the fables.
- Title-page in red and black.
- Title vignette, reproduced in gilt on front covers.
- Head and tail peices; initials.
- "One thousand copies for England and America." no. 584.
- In part a translation of Gerolamo Morlino's Latin stories.
- "Two hundred and ten copies printed on Japanese vellum. no. 42."
- OCLC:
- 3736847
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