ECHOES OF OLD FLORENCE: Her Palaces and Those Who Have Lived in Them
by Scott, Leader
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Florence: Flor & Findel. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1901. Second Revised Edition. 1. Vellum. Scott, Leader. ECHOES OF OLD FLORENCE: HER PALACES AND THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED IN THEM. Florence: Flor & Findel, 1901. 12mo (approx 5 x 7). 259 pp. Bound in full hand-painted vellum (signed by the artist). A.e.g. (blue). SECOND EDITION WITH A NEW CHAPTER. Hardcover without dust jacket (as issued). Vellum somewhat darkened. Single leather tie incomplete. Pages tanning. VERY GOOD. This is a beautiful signed, hand-illuminated vellum binding executed in Florence, Italy for Flor & Findel after 1901. This is the enlarged Second Edition of this history of Florence. The binding is full-vellum and is elaborately illuminated in pigments on the front cover; signed "Barbier, " [lower left]. . The original pigments are still quite bright. A beautiful Florentine book, printed, published and bound in the city for the fin de siecle tourist trade. A quite unusual (one-of-a-kind) and lovely little book. VERY GOOD.. Hand-painted. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 259 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1470
- Title
- ECHOES OF OLD FLORENCE: Her Palaces and Those Who Have Lived in Them
- Author
- Scott, Leader
- Illustrator
- Barbier
- Format/Binding
- Vellum
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Revised Edition. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Flor & Findel
- Place of Publication
- Florence
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Illustrated Books;, Fine Art, Artists, Travel, Florence
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Adventure;
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...