SICILY Painted by Alberto Pisa Described by Spencer C. Musson
SICILY Painted by Alberto Pisa Described by Spencer C. Musson
SICILY Painted by Alberto Pisa Described by Spencer C. Musson

SICILY Painted by Alberto Pisa Described by Spencer C. Musson

(London: Adam & Charles Black, 1911).

FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK'S IMPRESSIVE TRAVEL BOOKS, in this uncommon entry the ancient land of Sicily is described and illustrated in vivid and colourful detail. Pisa's exquisite paintings of gardens, ruins, landscapes, churches and villages are really quite exceptional and are here reproduced at the finest quality. This is one of the few of the Continental travel books to be illustrated by a native artist instead of a traveling Brit. Item #30129

First Edition. With 48 very impressive illustrations from the paintings of Alberto Pisa finely produced on colourplates tipped to sturdy gray stock, each with a captioned tissue guard, and with a folding map. Large 8vo, in the publisher's beautifully decorated gray cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine, which are both decorated in an all-over vineyard and orchard motif in green, black, purple and tan, t.e.g. xii, 312 pp. A very fresh and fine copy, bright, clean and with only a mild touch of age, far less than is typical.

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