Machiavelli

Belfegor [Narrative Poem based on Niccolo Machiavelli's "Novella di Belfegor".]

Author: 
Anon. [T.Charlton Smith]
Publication details: 
"Second Edition", Simpkin, Marshall, London, 1839.
£250.00

134pp., 8vo, in modern blue leather gt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, staining throughout affecting c.25% of each page, pages trimmed, but text clear and complete, with no loss of text except the very top of the letters written in the author's inscription. INSCRIPTION (titlepage): W.J. Mercer | from Lt General T. Charlton Smith | the Author | Nov.: 1874||". Mercer, presumably has added: "T.C.S. wrote this when a Captain in 27th. Regt. He sent copy to T. Moore, who apporioved the squib. The General was a Peninsular & Waterloo man: at Waterloo he was wounded.

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