XXII sonetti di Shakespeare scelti e tradotti da Giuseppe Ungaretti.

Autore: SHAKESPEARE, William - UNGARETTI, Giuseppe

Tipografo: Documento Editore Libraio

Dati tipografici: Roma, 1944


4to (336x244 mm). Shakespeare's portrait as a frontispiece (C. Grimaldi inc.), 53, [3] pp. Nice calligraphic initials on title page and in the text (Stabilimento Danesi of Rome). Text in Italian and English (Craig edition, Oxford 1911). Editor's half cloth with lettering piece on spine and front panel (small loss of paper to the back panel). Marginal browning and foxing, some marginal tears and small losses to the lower outer corner of a few leaves not affecting the text. Editor's half cloth with lettering piece on spine and front panel (small loss of paper to the back panel). A good copy complete with the rare editor's advertising book band .

Nicely printed first edition, published with considerable problems between December 1943 and September 1944, of some of William Shakespeare's sonnets chosen and translated by Giuseppe Ungaretti. This is copy no. 209 out of the 498 printed overall, of which 10 not for sale are numbered A-L, the others 1-488.


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