The Adventures of Giuseppe Pignata, Who Escaped from the Prisons of the Inquisition of Rome 1693
Author:
PIGNATA, GIUSEPPE & SYMONS, ARTHUR (Trans)
Title:
The Adventures of Giuseppe Pignata, Who Escaped from the Prisons of the Inquisition of Rome 1693
Publisher:
Jonathan Cape 1930
Description:
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 253pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing/soiling to spine & board edges/extrems, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's inscription in ink to ffep, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, sl foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (all corners lightly clipped, light to moderate insect damage & loss to rear cover, light tanning to spine, light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges)
Keywords:
first editions history English translations Giuseppe Pignata prisoners prisoner escapees 17th seventeenth century inquisition Rome inquisition autobiography memoir