Carlo Lorenzini
The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio First UK Edition
T. Fisher Unwin
1892
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A first UK edition of The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio.
- Carlo Collodi [pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini] (Italian).
- Translated from the Italian by M.A. Murray.
- London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.
- Twelve-mo.
- Half-title and title printed in red and black, frontispiece (with tissue guard) and illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti.
- First edition in English, first issue with illustrator's name misprinted as 'C. Mazzanti.'
- Patterned endpapers; publisher's patterned cloth.
The rare first UK edition of Collodi's classic for children, originally published in book-form in Florence, Italy in 1883. Previously serialised in a children's newspaper, Giornale per i bambini (1881-83) the work started out as La storia di un burattino, changed later to Le Avventure di Pinocchio. The author Lorenzini, a journalist & educationalist, took the name Collodi from his mother's native village in Tuscany.
Memorably translated into an animated musical fantasy by Walt Disney in 1940, their second feature film; now considered one of the greatest animated films ever made.
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Very GoodA few small marks to a couple of pages.
Contemporary gift inscription to half-title.
Slight toning to spine and top edge.
Minor signs of age and handling.
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