224, [1] pp. Cloth spine with gilt titles, and rules, marbled paper over boards. Translated into English from the original Italian, with an introduction, by Lovett F. Edwards, engraved frontispiece and illustrations (8 total) by Eric Fraser. An abridged version of Confessions of an Italian, an important novel about the Italian Risorgimento, and that work's first appearance in English (the full version was not translated until 2014).