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ITALIAN GIFT BOOK (BINDINGS - ITALIAN.) Strenna Italiana anno XIX. Illustrated; text leaves with decorative borders. Large 8vo, original cream boards embossed with cameos on front and back covers, including an 18th-century couple dancing and four ladies with fancy coiffures repeated on both covers, front cover with hand-colored central cameo decorated with fabric, gilt and colors, of a girl holding a rose within single gilt rule, all edges gilt, faint dampstaining to portion of spine and one spot on front cover; Paul Edward Chevalier leather bookplate on front flyleaf, some occasional marginal foxing to plates; housed in cloth clamshell case. Milano, Venezia e Verona: Carpano, 1853
Nicely preserved copy of a "strenna" gift book popular in the mid-19th century. Elegantly bound anthology that includes Italian poetry and travel stories, beautifully designed to appeal to the fairer sex.
