How Lisa Loved the King

by George Eliot

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition in book form, first printing. pp. vi , 48; vi . 1 vols. 12mo. Original brown cloth, front cover lettered in gilt, covers ruled in blind, brown endpapers. Faintest traces of soiling. Ownership inscription dated Mar. 16th, 1870. A near fine copy. Item #334799 George Eliot’s rendition in verse of this tale from Boccaccio’s Decameron was first printed in Blackwood's Magazine in May 1869

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