Opere scelte di Ugo Foscolo

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1272
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Foscolo, Ugo, 1778-1827
Title
Opere scelte di Ugo Foscolo
Statement of responsibility
Ugo Foscolo
Place of publication
Parigi
Publisher
Baudry, Libreria Europea
Collection
Not identified
Printer
Not expressly stated
Date
1837
Imprint (isbd)
Parigi: Baudry, Libreria Europea, 1837
Language
Italian
Print run
Not identified
Original work
Opere scelte di Ugo Foscolo
Original language
Italian
Translator
Not applicable
2. Physical description
Collation
Single volume; pagination not fully verified
Illustrations
Steel engraving or lithographic portrait of Ugo Foscolo
Format
Large octavo approx.
Dimensions
Not determined
Typographic signatures
Not verified in the supplied images
Paper type
Industrial laid paper or transitional rag paper; visible oxidation and abundant foxing
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Letterpress printing with appreciable relief
3. Binding
Binding type
Period half leather binding with corners
Colours
Brown and marbled papers in green, red and yellow tones
Decoration
Smooth spine decorated with gilt tooling and fillets; marbled paper boards
Spine
Smooth spine with gilt decoration and period decorative structure
Endpapers
Period marbled paper in green, red and yellow tones
4. Content
Content description
Contains Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, Orazione a Bonaparte, Dell’origine della letteratura, Alcuni capitoli del viaggio sentimentale, Prose scelte, Dei sepolcri, Ricciarda and selected poems by Ugo Foscolo, representative works of Italian Romanticism
5. General notes
Note 1
Nineteenth-century Parisian Italian edition
Note 2
Representative of the diffusion of Italian literature in Paris during the Romantic period
Note 3
Preserves engraved portrait of the author
Note 4
Preserves decorative period binding
Note 5
Copy with abundant foxing and old damp stains
6. Subjects
Main subject
Italian Romantic literature
Subtopics
Italian Romanticism; Italian poetry; epistolary narrative; Italian theatre; nineteenth-century literature; Ugo Foscolo
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1272
Condition
Acceptable; signs of use and heavy oxidation; rubbing and superficial losses to the binding; abundant foxing and old damp stains; text remains legible
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Preserves portrait of the author and decorative period binding; possible old restorations not verified