Il castello di Otranto : storia gotica.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.

Contributor:

Sivrac, Jean, active 1794-1795.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Castle of Otranto. Italian

Language:

English

Italian

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Smith, Anna Maria (autograph)

Cobbold, Robert Knipe (bookplate) (inscription, November 1844)

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 253 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

In Londra : Presso Molini, Polidori, Molini e Co. ..., ed I. Edwards ..., 1795.

Notes:

Translation into Italian of: The castle of Otranto.

Published anonymosly. Written by Horace Walpole. Translated by jean Sivrac. Cf. ESTC.

With half-title: Il castello di Otranto, stampato da T. Bensley, sotto l'ispezione di Giovanni Sivrac.

Signatures: [a]⁴ b² B⁸(±B6) C-Q⁸ R⁸(-R8).

In this state, there is a footnote on p. viii; leaf B6 is a cancel; printed on papier vélin.

Frontispiece & plates engr. by Thomas Medland & O. Birrell after Joino & A.M.C. Delmé. The plates were first published separately by E. & S. Harding in July 1793; in this printing, the legends have been translated into Italian, and the imprint is altered to "Londra 1. Genn.⁰ 1795. Pubbl. da Gio Sivrac".

Errata on last page.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN), T99857

OCLC:

21736801