In 8° (235x175 mm); pages (12), 289, (3) with numerous elegant full-page illustrations and many friezes, all in woodcut, in red and black on laid paper, with headers, tailpieces, frames and beautiful woodcut vignettes, all masterfully engraved by Adolfo De Carolis. Dedication copy with autograph signature by D’Annunzio “to Giuseppe Cellini, waiting for my new papers to be returned to him”. Original edition in the head edition bound in parchment, the ordinary edition was in fact published with a cloth binding. Soft editorial parchment with titles on the spine and gilded medallion with the motto “noi leggevamo” printed in gold, silk ribbons missing in the part of the fastening, gold title on the spine. Perfect unsohisticated copy. Gambetti-Vezzosi, Repertorio delle primi edizioni, p. 157; Guabello, Raccolta dannunziana, nr. 150 (where there is a mention, but without any description, of a previous edition published as an extract from the newspaper «La Patria» of Rome). De Medici 48; Falqui 27