Description: CARLO COLLODI, 1892 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION AND FIRST IMPRESSION. STORY OF A PUPPET OR THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO. 1892 first English edition and first English impression of the “Story of a Puppet” better known as Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi and published by T. Fisher Unwin, London. The name of the illustrator, Enrico Mazzanti, was misspelled on the title page of this first edition as "C. Mazzanti.” The Author’s real name was Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 to October 26, 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi. Collodi was journalist and educationalist. He took the name Collodi from his mother's native village in Tuscany. This book is part of the 1892 set of “The Children’s Library Series” This series revolutionized the marble use design on books and are amongst the first books to ever being published with marble designs all around, including all of the end pages as you can see from the pictures. Please checkout ebay listing number 204909139849 which has the other six books from this series for sale. 1) “An Enchanted Garden” Fairy Stories, Mrs. Molesworth, illus. W. J. Hennessy. 2) “Irish Fairy Tales” by W.B. Yeats, illustrated by Jack B. Yeats.3) "Stories from Fairyland” George Drosines and The Cup of Tears, and other tales by Aristotle Kourtidos. 4) "La Belle Nivernaise” The story of an old boat and her crew by Alphonse Daudet, translated by Robert Routledge and illustrated by Montegut. 5) "A China Cup and Other Stories for Children”, by Felix Volkhovsky, illustrated by Malischeff. With its original first impression dust jacket. 6) "Once Upon A Time Fairy Tales, translated by the Italian of Luigi Capuana, illustrated by Mazzanti. Italy's most famous contribution to children's literature was first serialised in a children's newspaper, Giornale per i bambini, Rome, 1881-83. Beginning as La Storia di un Burratino, the title later changed to "Le Avventure di Pinochio". In the last of these pieces the subversive Pinocchio is hanged and dies. Public demand caused Collodi to continue the very popular story, so in 1883 these were republished in book form in Florence, and then in English as part of the Children's Library Series in 1892. This edition is now very uncommon and due to its notoriously fragile construction, it is particularly rare in nice condition. "Thomas Fisher Unwin was born on January 24, 1848 in London. In 1882 he founded his own publishing firm, T. Fisher Unwin. In 1885 he started a British book series titled The Story of the Nations.
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Language: English
Author: Collodi, Carlo
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Year Printed: 1892
