Item #WE24852 Romance Of The Italian Villas (Northern Italy). Elizabeth W. Champney.

Romance Of The Italian Villas (Northern Italy)

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Hardcover in grey cloth ornately decorated and lettered in gilt and black. Top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. xvii+ 448 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Later printing (first was 1906) Color frontipiece of Botticelli's portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, 13 photogravure plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous additional plates throughout the text (some foxing to these), A tight, very good or a bit better example, front gilt bright, spine a bit sunned and lettering a bit rubbed. Christmas 1912 inscription front free endpaper with a 1998 updated inscription. Another of those lovely travel/tourism books issued in the early 20th century, this one told in narrative form and set among the villas of northern Italy. From the Preface, "Are these stories true? Yes, true as brain and heart can make them..." Very Good. Item #WE24852

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