(London: Paul Elek, 1950, 1951).

FIRST EDITION. EXPERIENCE THE TOTAL ESSENCE OF ROME. Includes: "The Rome of the gardens and ruins of the Palatine, the Rome of the saints and the Popes, of mediaeval quarters and Baroque churches and fountains, the huge modern Rome of nearly two million inhabitants; Naples and its bay; contrasts between the rusticity of Ischia and the fashion of Capri, between the Virgilian memories of the Phlegrean fields and the twelfth century memories of Amalfi and Ravello; the romanesque cathedrals and Frederician fortresses of Apulia; the wild mountains of Calabria and the desolations of Basilicata; the immense fertility of Sicily, Greek, Norman, Baroque and modern..." Volume II is a tour of Northern Italy and especially of Tuscany. There are chapters on the Piedmont, Milan and Lombardy, Genoa and Liguria, the Emilia-Romagna, Venice and the Lagoons, the Veneto, Venezia and Giulia, Florence, Tuscany and Umbria. A fine and well regarded guide to Italy. Item #31502

2 volumes. First Edition of each volume. Ilustrated throughout with black and white photographs and with cartographic endleaves and pastedowns. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, gilt lettered on the spines panels, and in the photographically decorated dustjackets. 128; 184 pp. A fine set in the rare dustjackets which show only very minimal wear at the extremities.