WALPOLE (Horace): — Il Castello di Otranto. Storia Gotica.

In Londra: Presso Molini..., 1795. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION. Large 8vo, 249 x 159 mms. pp. [iii] - x [xi index, xii blank], 253 [254 errata], including half-title, engraved frontispiece (by Medland after Joino), 6 other engraved plates by Birrell after Anne Melicent Clarke, with footnote on page 8, uncut and unopened, almost illegible contemporary autograph on title-page, contemporary marbled boards, with later (19th century) spine and paper label. This Italian translation by George Sivrac uses the plates by Harding that first appeared in 1793. The work appears in various states and issues: this appears to be Hazen's second state. Hazen, p. 63.