A first edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio in English.<ul><li>Carlo Collodi (Italian).</li><li>Translated by Mary Alice Murray.</li><li>Illustrated by E. Mazzanti (incorrectly printed as "C. Mazzanti").</li><li>London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.&nbsp;</li><li>232 pages.</li><li>Bound in the original decorative cloth with the blue floral design repeated on the text block edges and endpapers, half title and title printed in red and black.&nbsp;</li><li>Housed in custom blue quarter goatskin clamshell box.</li></ul>

Story of a Puppet, Or the Adventures of Pinocchio

A first UK edition of The Story of a Puppet or <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Adventures+of+Pinocchio&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Adventures of Pinocchio</a>.<ul><li>Carlo Collodi [pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini] (Italian).</li><li>Translated from the Italian by M.A. Murray.</li><li>London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.</li><li>Twelve-mo.</li><li>Half-title and title printed in red and black, frontispiece (with tissue guard) and illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti.</li><li>First edition in English, first issue with illustrator's name misprinted as 'C. Mazzanti.'</li><li>Patterned endpapers; publisher's patterned cloth.</li></ul> 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 &amp; 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.

The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio First UK Edition

First English edition of Collodi's classic children's tale.<ul><li>Carlo Collodi (Italian).</li><li>Translated from the Italian by Mary Alice Murray (English).</li><li>Illustrated by C. Mazzanti (Italian).</li><li>London:&nbsp;T. Fisher Unwin,&nbsp;1892.</li><li>232 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes illustrations and frontispiece with tissue guard and with title page printed in red and black.</li><li>Reviews from The Bookman (Jan. 1892) and a TLS review (1920) tipped in to the rear endpapers</li><li>Bound in publisher's printed cloth, decorated edges following the design of the covers.</li></ul>

The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio

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