Viaggio al Tempio di Possagno, novelle
Venise, Giovambatista Merlo, 1834.
1 vol. (130 x 190 mm) of 4 leaves (title, introduction), 150 p., 1 unnumbered leaf of limitation, frontispiece portrait. Half cherry-red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with blind fillets, triple blind fillet on covers, blue edges, uncut at the fore-edge.
Copy printed on blue paper. Very rare first edition of this collection of 12 short stories, the last title published by the author. A Venetian lawyer, Tommaso Grapputo (1772–1834) was best known, between 1809 and 1811, as one of the most fervent Italian panegyrists of Napoleon.
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