Half-title: STANDARD NOVELS. | № XLIII. | {6 lines of citation} | THE BETROTHED | COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. | LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY | (SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN) : | BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; | CUMMING, DUBLIN. | 1834 ||

Illustrated title page: THE BETROTHED, | FROM THE ITALIAN | OF | ALESSANDRO MANZONI. | {vignette by S. Smith after F. Pickering} | LONDON: | RICHARD BENTLEY | (SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN.) | CUMMING, DUBLIN, – BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH, | GALIGNANI, PARIS. |1834. ||

Title page: THE | BETROTHED. | FROM THE ITALIAN | OF | ALESSANDRO MANZONI. | LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, 8 NEW BURLINGTON STREET | (SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN): | BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; | AND CUMMING, DUBLIN. | 1834 ||

Frontispiece: vignette by S. Smith after F. Pickering.

Pagination: [i-v] 6-xii, [1] 2-452 [2 blank] + 2 plates.

Collation: [A]⁶ B-Z⁸ AA-FF⁸ GG²  + 2 leaves of plates; Note: A₁, A₂, A₄, GG₂ – unsigned; both frontispiece and illustrated title are extraneous to collation.

Binding: 2/3 black calf over marbled boards, raised bands w/gilt elements, gilt lettering in compartments and gilt title on a crimson label to spine; contemporary, but not the original publisher’s binding; size: 16.5 x 10.5 cm

Bookplates: Yellow sticker to front pastedown “J. K. Higgins, Northampton” (unknown); Ex libris to the front flyleaf: “Hilda Moore” (probably Hilda Mary Moore (British, 1886 – 1929) – a British stage and film actress.

Series: Bentley’s Standard Novels, № 43, first series.

Catalogue raisonné: Michael Sadleir (1951): p. 101.

Original title: ALESSANDRO MANZONI : I PROMESSI SPOSI

Contributors:

Manzoni, Alessandro (Italian, 1785 – 1873)

Pickering, Ferdinand (British, 1810 – 1889) – artist.

Smith, Samuel S. (British, 1810 – 1879) – engraver.

A. Spottiswoode (London); Spottiswoode, Andrew (British, 1787 – 1866) – printer.

Bentley, Richard (British, 1794 – 1871) – publisher.

For the Russian edition see [LIB-1333.2017]: Алессандро Манцони. Обрученные. Повесть из истории Милана XVII века / Перевод И. И. Шитца. (Итальянская литература). — М.-Л.: Academia, 1936.