Description: 4to, 26 x 21 cm, hardcover ¾ brown percaline over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, publisher’s original wrappers preserved (bound-in), engraved bookplate “EX LIBRIS | Rodolfo …“ to verso of the 1^st blank leaf. Printed in 1905 by Imprimerie Humbert Allegretti (Milan).

Collation: 4to; front wrapper, π³ (blank, h.t., t.p.), 1-68⁴, back wrapper; total 275 leaves within the wrappers.

Pagination: [6] [1] 2-542 [2], total 550 pages.

Contributors:

Alessandro Baudi di Vesme [Alexandre de Vesme] (Italian, 1854 – 1923)

Adam Bartsch (Austrian, 1757 – 1821)

Ulrico Hoepli [Johannes Ulrich Höpli] (Swiss-Italian, 1846 – 1935)

U. Hoepli (Milan)