VENETIA AND NORTHERN ITALY: Being the Story of Venice, Lombardy, and Emilia
by [Home, Gordon] Headlam Cecil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1908. First Edition. With 25 full page colour plates and 17 illustrations in the text by Gordon Home, and with a folding map at the rear of the volume. Thick, royal 8vo, publisher's original tan cloth, lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in colourson the spine and upper cover, t.e.g. xiv, 335, index. A very attractive copy, with a bit of toning to the cover and a bit of rubbing to the tips, internally fresh and clean, the plates all in good order, the binding tight and sound. FIRST EDITION AND A DELIGHTFUL LOOK AT NORTHERN ITALIAN TOWNS AND THEIR ART AND ARCHITECTURE. With striking colour illustrations that transport the reader to each village square, this book brings history to life.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31478
- Title
- VENETIA AND NORTHERN ITALY: Being the Story of Venice, Lombardy, and Emilia
- Author
- [Home, Gordon] Headlam Cecil
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
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About the Seller
Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....