309 pages. The black boards are shelf stained; up to page 15 the pages not quite flush with the boards; the head of pp267-270 is creased along the blank outer edge, including a series of short, closed tears. Not a pretty copy, but solid and clean.Foreign Classical Romances, vol. 22. Translated from the Italian. '"A powerful study in fiction of the passion for gambling and the evil effect of the national lottery in Naples on all classes of society...The story is also a description of Naples, of its people and scenes at all times and seasons. The panorama of the procession of the festival of San Genaro is a vivid picture." (Bartleby)