Plain-Towns of Italy. The Cities of Old Ventia.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. Item #916 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. With the book and signature of Carleton Potter Small on the front endpapers and some pencil notations on the rear endpaper and a few checkmarks on the table of contents and the list of illustrations. A very 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 works were highly esteemed for their connoisseurship and a number edition of each were published over the next 75 years. (916)
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