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Italian villas and their gardens / by Edith Wharton ; illustrated with pictures by Maxfield Parrish and by photographs.
LIBRA 710 W557a
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rare Books Collection DG420 .W55 1907
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Italy.
- Architecture.
- Italy.
- Architecture, Domestic--Italy.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Landscape gardening.
- Italy--Description and travel.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1907.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xii, 270 pages, 52 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (part. color) ; 28 cm
- Manufacture:
- [New York].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Century Co., 1904. The De Vinne Press)
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Florentine villas
- Sienese villas
- Roman villas
- Villas near Rome
- Genoese villas
- Lombard villas
- Villas of venetia.
- Notes:
- Considered the author's first published travel book.
- Title printed within double-ruled border with outer green floral border.
- "Published November, 1904."
- Running title, page numbers and chapter initials printed in umber.
- Plates includes in page count.
- Includes index.
- Binding by Decorative Designers with cover design inspired by illustration "Villa Pia" by Maxfield Parrish.
- Green cloth binding with front cover stamped in gold, green, back, white, umber and blue and signed at the lower right D. [inverted] D. Gold-stamped lettering and shield on spine. Top edge trimmed and gilt stained; other edges untrimmed.
- Cover design by Decorative Designers.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: "Gold, green, white, brown and blue stamping on dark green cloth" -- Minsky.
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Art Bound: Book Design Past & Present," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2008.
- Athenaeum copy: Meigs gift.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 1, pg. 101
- OCLC:
- 514154
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