Scelta Delle Commedie di Carlo Goldoni Avvocato Veneto Unite Insieme da I. G. Di Fraporta prima d’ora pub. Lettore della lingua Italiana nell’ univesita di Lipsia Tom I Tom II Tom III Tom IV Edizione Seconda 1781 Edizione Terza 1790 4 Volume Complete (mixed) set Selected Comedies of Goldoni Vol I 3rd Ed 1790 Vols II III and IV 2nd Edition 1781

4 Volume Set (complete) of this selection of Carlo Goldoni’s comedies, being a mixed set all published during Goldoni’s lifetime – Vol I 3rd Ed 1790, Vols II III and IV 2nd Edition 1781; plays selected by I.G. Di Fraporta, professor of Italian studies at the University of Leipzig (Lipsia); all volumes published in Leipzig; four comedies per volume, including Il Padre di Famiglia, La Vedova Scaltra, La Dama Prudente, La Guerra; Goldoni is one of Italy’s most important playwrights, revolutionising Italian comedy in the 18th Century by abandoning the traditions of the Commedia dell’arte, instead investigating real characters and manners; a scarce 18th-Century set; bound in boards with original title labels and gilt titling to spines, blue ovals with gilt borders for volume numbers, and four gilt devices; all volumes foxed to endpapers and prelims, foxed and tanned throughout (light-med), o.w. Good; boards rubbed and scuffed (medium to vols 3 and 4, heavy to 1 and 2); all original title labels present and intact (if showing their age).