vigny count alfred william hazlitt (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First English Edition. Black cloth bound boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and blind-stamped decorations to the cloth. No dustjacket. There is light rubbing to the cloth corners. There are foxing (brown) spots to the page fore-edges, to the prelims and to the frontispiece. There is a gift note addressed to the former owner on the front free-endpaper. There is a split to the rear inner page hinge and there is loss to the top of the rear free-endpaper, Otherwise there are NO other inscriptions or marks. (xvii) + 397 pp. Translated from the ninth Paris Edition by Wiliam Hazlitt. Overall, apart from the 'faults', as detailed above, this is a Clean, Tight and Secure, 'Very Good' copy. "This is Count Alfred De Vigny's famous historical romance, here for the first time in English. " ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 1847, 1st English ed, VG+. In green embossed cloth, corners and edges very lightly bumped and worn. Spine, titles in gilt, edges bumped. Internally, yellow (later?) endpapers, half title with adverts to verso, portrait frontis, [5], (vi-xvii), [1], [1], 2-397 pp, 1 pl (portrait), printed by TC Savill, part of the European Library series, small bookseller label to epd (Leighton), some light spotting to frontis, but an exceptionally clean copy. The classic French novel first published in Vienne in 1827. Our copy is the first English translation based on the 9th Paris edition. (Lowndes 23). The story of the failed conspiracy of young Henri d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars to overthrow Richelieu; his doomed romance with Marie de Gonzague, a princess betrothed to the king of Poland; and Cinq-Mars' subsequent beheading. Alfred Victor de Vigny, was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. MDCCCXLVII. An historical romance. Frontis of Alfred de Vigny. 397 pages. Original binding in green cloth with gold title and emboss decoration. A very worn, but complete and intact copy.