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[PINOCCHIO] COLLODI, CARLO [The Story of a Puppet, or the Adventures of Pinocchio]. The Adventures of Pinocchio. New Yo...
. London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1870. First edition. Original green cloth gilt, recased. 15 x 10 3/4 inches (38 x 27 cm); 31 pp., with 16 plates engraved and printed in chromoxylography by Richard Evans. Binding worn, spine laid down, retaining original endpapers (with inscription dated 1873), some finger soil, toning of plates, a few repaired marginal tears etc;Together with COLLODI, CARLO. [The Story of a Puppet, or the Adventures of Pinocchio]. "The Adventures of Pinocchio." New York: 1926. Original cloth. 11 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches (28.5 x 20 cm); illustrated by Attilio Mussino. Some spotting; And an attractive modern edition in Dutch.
The Doyle is one of the finest illustrated books of the period, rarely found without considerable wear. Ray, English, 146; Osborne I, p. 365;
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