COLQUHOUN, Archibald. Manzoni and His Times. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1954]. 8°. Half title, half tone plates. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “For Anthony, con viva simpatia, Archie, April 1956.” With 7 other books, namely Useless Memoirs of Carlo Gozzi (London, 1962), Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed … Translated by Archibald Colquhoun (London, [1951]), Mario Tobino’s The Mad Women of Magliano. A Novel Translated by Archibald Colquhoun (London, [1954], [?]proof copy, in plain brown wrappers), Italian Regional Tales of the Nineteenth Century (London, 1961), Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s The Leopard … Translated … by Archibald Colquhoun (London, 1960, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH), Federico de Roberto’s The Viceroys. Translated … by Archibald Colquhoun ([London, 1962]) and Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s Two Stories and a Memory … Translated … by Archibald Colquhoun (London, 1962), all but one INSCRIBED BY ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN TO ANTHONY HOBSON.