Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the 1825 Hurst, Robinson and Co. edition by David Price. Many thanks to the Bodleian Library for making their copy available.
TALES OF THE WILD AND THE WONDERFUL.
“Messer, dovete havete pigliate tante coglionerie?” quoth the Reader.
Cardinal Ippolito d’Este to Ariosto.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 5 WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL MALL; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
M.DCCC.XXV.
TO
JOANNA BAILLIE,
AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF ADMIRATION TO HER RESPLENDENT TALENTS,
THIS VOLUME
IS DEDICATED,
BY
THE AUTHOR.