1893 The Pentamerone, or, Story of Stories

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce copy of George Cruikshank's illustrated edition of John Edward Taylor's English language translation of Giambattista Basile's 'Pentamerone', a seventeenth century Neapolitan fairy tale.

Illustrated with thirteen plates by famed caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank. Collated, complete.

With the bookplate of British army officer John de Vere Loder, a colonial administrator, to the front pastedown, and the inscription 'John Loder, from Louisa Antrim, Xmas 1897'. This is inscribed to Loder by Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim, a British noblewoman and courtier.

With six pages of advertisements to the rear.