Plain-Towns of Italy.
Boston: Houghton, Miffllin and Company, at the Riverside Press, 1911. Item #1009
8vo. 210 x 145 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. xxiv, 603 pp. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and a folding map, and 58 photo reproductions printed on glossy paper in the text. Publisher’s decorated green cloth and spine; showing minor wear and very little fading of the cloth, front hinge cracked, with a rather long pencil note about Bruce Roger’s design of the book by a previous owner. With faults a good copy.
First edition, designed by Bruce Rogers and very nicely printed and bound at the Riverside Press, Boston. This work, “endeavors to be an exposition of the whole region of the Venetia, setting forth all its towns and countryside worth visiting, in the realms of history, art, and natural beauty. . .” Included are descriptions of Brenta, Padua, Vicenza, Bassano, Treviso, Undine, Verona, Brescia, Ferrara, and Rovigo to name the most prominent cities Williams visited.
Egerton Williams was the author of a number of other books on Italy, the most famous of which are The Hill Towns of Italy, the companion volume to this work published in 1904, and his study of the Province of Lombardy which was published in 1914. Williams’s.
Price: $100.00