Italian Villas and Their Gardens
by Wharton, Edith
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Cedar Ridge, California, United States
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About This Item
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1905. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very good. Maxfield Parrish. Second State, 4to, full green gilt-decorated cloth, TEG. 270pp. Originally printed in a series of articles in Century Magazine. 26 Parrish illustrations,15 in color, depict formal gardens and their structures and pools. Many other plates from photographs and by other artists. Scratch to spine gilt else near fine, a tight, bright copy without ownership marks.
Synopsis
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Dixon Hunt is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) was a renowned American painter and illustrator.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bud Plant & Hutchison Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13532
- Title
- Italian Villas and Their Gardens
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Illustrator
- Maxfield Parrish
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- John Lane The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated;
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- Gilt
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