Being a translation by… of Il Pentamerone; Overo lo cunto de li cunte, trattenemiento de li Peccerille of Giovanni Battista Basile, Count of Torone (Gian Alessio Abbattutis).
First edition, no. 151 (vol. 1) and no. 152 (vol. 2) of a limited edition of 165 copies. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt title to front cover and spine. Spines slightly toned with wear to edges, upper inner hinge vol. 1 cracked, endpapers foxed. xvi, 282; vi, [283]-562pp. London, Henry and Co., Bouverie Street, 1893.
A large paper, limited edition copy of this collection of fifty folk tales, originally written in the Neapolitan dialect.
Penzer, pp. 155-6.
